What happened in MN and Baton Rouge are being singled out plain and simple. The cop may or may not have been right or wrong in each case, or may have overreacted to the situations, but they did it based purely on experience. Not bias or race issues. We don’t know the facts to say what yet, but both are now established in some circles as race-based acts, no matter what the situations turn out to be. White people get shot and killed by police too. Most likely in the exact situations these two men faced. We as a society are now poisoned by magnified anecdotal situations and pure lies such as Michael Brown and Baltimore. Has there ever been a racist act by a cop, most likely. It’s in minute numbers. Do cops in this country face thousands of life and death situations daily resulting in a very occasional situation like this. Yes. With many if not most with african-american individuals. That’s the reality. There are two parties to this situation, and it ain’t the cops at the root of the problem.
“There are two parties to this situation, and it ain’t the cops at the root of the problem.”
Since as you say, the facts are not yet known, how then can you dismiss the possibility that officer malfeasance is not possible? The sad part of it all is that both sides, the citizens and the cops are now polarized to an extent to which they never have been before. In the past, cops, whether they deserved it or not, received the respect their job demanded. Now that’s gone, and people on both sides are the worse for the direction things have gone. And as a gun owner, and 2A supporter, every time these things happen, it only hastens the day when our RAT governments figure out how to disarm us.