I know nothing about this case other than what I’ve read here on FR, but I’m willing to bet that this Somali cop is one of the dumbest people ever to wear a uniform ... and that includes a Burger King employee’s uniform, too.
Post 17 makes far more sense.
Very likely. Which is why people should not “do favors” for trainees and the like based on sympathy with their past or race or whatever. You’re really not doing a person a favor by sending them out to do a job they are not yet ready for, you are putting them at great risk. Assuming the guy is really the nicest guy in the world but dumb as a box of rocks- he just murdered someone while playing with his gun and is - in theory at least- looking at serious time in prison for being an idiot. All because of political correctness.
On the other hand maybe he’s not at all the “nicest guy just dreaming of being a cop” and knew exactly what he was doing and did it in cold blood. In that case political correctness still put him there.
What a mess.