The background of the shooter might very well have considerable bearing on the sentence if found guilty, as aggravating or mitigating circumstances.
But it simply has nothing to do with whether the shooting was justified or not.
The Rodney King beating was (somewhat) justified by the earlier portion of the video, and FTM by the fact that they were attempting to subdue a resisting man.
I challenge you or anybody else to construct a scenario in which the North Charleston shooting is justified. Can’t be done, IMO.
So unless you can come up with a fictional justification, let’s stop pretending a real one might exist.
I can *easily* construct a scenario in which the shooting *might* have been justified.The guy ran from a routine traffic stop.That suggests to me that he just *might* have had something to hide....kinda like the Gentle Giant having had things to hide (as we discovered days *after* "hands up,don't shoot" was being repeated in a Rose Garden press conference).Guys with serious things to hide are know to do...or to attempt to do...bad things to cops.
For me the best I can come up with right now is "might".The cop might have committed a very serious crime...he might not.