I was just reading some stories and remembered your comment. I wanted to share to provide some parallels to what you're saying. Tamir Rice case ruled a just shooting. He was a small child with an airsoft gun. Neighbor who WASN'T at the park but far away did report that it was a male juvenile. You might think the police would want to be careful around a juvenile-- I mean, a citizen of their community who is small, ignorant, and likely poor in general reasoning skills-- but no, he shot him to protect the public and himself, even though the caller reported that the child was pointing the gun at people (how did he have a split second decision to make as the paper is reporting it?!?!?!). The most shocking this about the report is that the reviewer of the indicident who ultimately decided the officer's innocence has been an officer and has trained officers all over the world for years in deadly combat. He said in the report that he would not be able to review all of the details of the casefile:"To do so in a complete, and thorough fashion, would simply be reiterating the salient information already archived, and in some fashion summarized by the investigative process."

Officer in Corey Jones case Corey while he was on the phone with his carrier for carrying a weapon. Corey wasn't even pointing a weapon at anything and was definitely not shooting. Cop has been fired, and totally acted off of fear.

Aristotle would fault these cops for being "hasty" (the median to aim for is "brave"; the deficiency "cowardice"). See it's not a two way thing. There is the virtue in the middle that one can aim for, not trading the general public's safety for cop safety.

Police shot this deaf man for brandishing what appeared to them to be a weapon (no weapon at all) because he wouldn't listen when they told him to "put down the 'gun'". This story is such a perfect example of how the police are being trained and that force policies are unbridled. Police don't even care; sympathizers blame the victims (along with using many racial slurs and nationalistic speech) and actually really like the fact that police in this country have that kind of power and reign under such loose jurisdiction. For some reason it makes them feel safe.

Well me, I've seen enough. It's been 24 years since Rodney King was taped being beaten by the police. Our prisons are overflowing. We wonder what's the matter with us. We deserve the global ridicule we get for being the dumbest first world country. We are brutish and nasty to one another, we hide in our houses like cats and freak out whenever somebody does weird things. On that note, did you know you could be killed for behaving strangely? Don't believe me? Read about it here. Guy was standing in the street 'behaving strangely'. He was unarmed and not responding to tasers, so they shot him. Conveniently, a witness came about later who reported being 'attacked' (no specifics) by the unarmed suspect. The LAPD were not wearing body cameras. What the fuck?