"Police shoot unarmed man" is the media headline

[DeadlyDynasty]

Yeah, I was huge into situational awareness being the main focus of Martin and especially Brown. I wasn't a fan of the way Michael was martyred and glorified at all. When I went on my road trip, I kept my license and insurance info in a lanyard around my neck so it was clearly visible to police prior to them asking me to hand it over. There was no reaching into my pocket of glove compartment. Of course, my friend had his in his wallet, so when he reached for it I thought I was about to watch him die.

Anyway, being safe is important given the reality, but I think there's a major gap between what you should prepare to give and what the other people are en led to take. And that's not just in the case of police or even tense potentially violent situations. Like I think there's a gap between what you should be willing to do for a friend and what a person has the right to expect their friends to do for them. Or how much you should tip versus how much a person should expect you to tip, and so on.

I think we need to make the police force better in all of these cases, because in addition to someone being killed unnecessarily, you've just ruined or at least altered a cop's life by making them a killer. Most people can't shake that reality so easily. It's not fair to them to put them out there with no training, or to put them in situations where the community hates them even to where they are in real danger just trying to do their jobs. Again, a lot that has to stop on both sides, situational awareness or no.

Good points. Unfortunately, the funding that was to go to police training has now been re-allocated to feed, clothe, and house Syrian refugees. I kid, I kid.
I've said my peace, we'll pick up the conversation in the next police shooting thread.

Go Ravens

[DMC]

Bottom line, it was suicide by cop. Cops killed a white man's ing autistic kid and no one rioted.

[DMC]

Did we figure out that the guy wasn't mentally impaired? I can't imagine him being a cook with palsey, but that was just my baseless speculation. But the I thought the article said the guy was impaired.

Anyway, his is just circling back to the conversation we had yesterday. I understand that you can do something stupid and get shot. But that doesn't mean that the people who shot you can write it off. More than one party can be to blame.

Blame is fine, but your life is in your hands if you pretend to draw down on a guy pointing a firearm at you. It's like a car accident where you weren't at fault but you could have avoided it and you died. Dead is ing dead, fault be damned.

[Fabbs]

The tragedy has gained attention in Africa, where officials from several countries criticized Olango's death and the succession of police killings of black men in the United States. Source: Yahoo News.

Oh I see. So they wanted their brother back in Africa?

Immigration officials said they tried unsuccessfully multiple times to obtain travel do ents from the Ugandan government so he could be deported.

“This is often due to a foreign government’s refusal to accept the repatriation of its nationals,” ICE said.


Immigration officials tried twice to deport Ugandan refugee fatally shot by El Cajon police

San Diego Union Tribune
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...nap-story.html

[Fabbs]

Yeah, that's not the way it works. If you purposefully only show something that makes you look as good as possible, people aren't going to take it at face value. Again, this isn't a photo. It's a still. Who knows what it looked like a frame before or after? I'm not keen to bury the cops over this, but the department looks sketchy as right now.

Ok, well you got the video now.
What does this change for you?

[Fabbs]

These are reasons why the video might be more enlightening. Instead, Fabbs used this as an example of misleading news. It's very possible that will be majorly ironic.

You have now seen the video and have been AWOL ever since.
Is it very possible it does not fit your narrative?

[Chinook]

You have now seen the video and have been AWOL ever since.
Is it very possible it does not fit your narrative?

I actually still haven't seen the video. I think you think I was following this story a lot more closely than I actually was. Is it linked ITT?