What, exactly, did you see in that video that convinces you that the police are in the wrong? (And I'm not saying that they aren't.)
To start with it's very poor. We don't get to see the shooting victim's right hand after he's taken down (could have a gun there) and I don't "see" any shots being fired during the video (we "hear" some "pops" but there's no accompanying recoil of the only police weapon that we see to be upholstered at the time)..
Trolling again?
Black lives matter no more or no less than yellow lives, red lives or white lives.
I didn't see anything in the video. I am just like you, listening to the news. I have no idea who is right. I am wondering WHO is right? And, gee, the cops just happened to drop their video cameras?
Let's see. Isn't there a rule someplace on those cop books, like on the first page? You know the rule that if you drop your video camera and someone is pinned on the ground, it is NOT a good idea to NOT record it?
The whole world is watching cops right now.
This is going to not BODE well for them.
Well My 2, we are never going to get closure with videos because people will deny everything and say it is not the reason such and such happened, etc.
The thing that gets me is how these keystone cops all happened to accidentally lose the VIDEO camera they are required to wear?
That is grounds for dismissal right there. AT THE VERY LEAST. Like the GOP Trump lovers are fond of saying about Hillary? What are they hiding here?
In the video they had him pinned. Even if he tried to go for his gun (which they stated was still in his pocket at the end of the incident). The should have been able to use non lethal force.
All right. After thinking about it I would like to retract the first sentence in my above comment.
But I stick by the second sentence. If the cops did use deadly force without justification we shouldn't divide ourselves base on race. The victim's skin color should have no bearing on how the police handled the matter. That's "divide and conquer". We should ALL be outraged by it and clearly let that be known by the idiots that allegedly govern.
Black lives matter equally with the lives of red, yellow, white and all variations.
The policeman who murdered that driver-man deserves to be in prison for life, and that's because it's a worse fate than execution.
We hear about police murdering without provocation too often in the USA. Something must be seriously wrong with their training. Why isn't someone investigating the causes?
Yes, black lives matter, all lives matter. Facts, details, evidence matter too. I've found it's best to let them unfold and resist the urge to jump to conclusions too quickly. I'll be the first to say charge them and put them under the jail if the facts support them being too trigger-happy or even reckless.
But the facts come first, then the conclusions.
ForkNdaRoad is right.
We should wait for all the facts to become known before judging.
Even so, there have been too many cases where it later turned out that the policeman was not threatened in any way. One case would be too many.
For police to be abe to do their job properly, we need to be able to trust them, and that means they must abide by the law with absolute integrity. They need to be thoroughly trained to the right conditioned reflexes and held to an even higher level of accountability.
i think they do and i think they should stop killing them
