I wonder- if the cop in question were a white Christian how many people would be saying “wait for all the facts and evidence” or “you don’t know how hard that job is” or such. This must be the FIRST time a cop has killed someone that I haven’t seen a poster say they should get at least the benefit of the doubt.
Then you missed the early threads because there were plenty of them.
Shooting over his partner gave some of them pause.
The fact that this will be the fourth time in two years that this cop has gotten a "violation of rights" complaint against him gave others pause.
Because usually there is a cell phone video of some knucklehead cursing and fighting with the cop. So most people understand that physically fighting or tousling with a cop is dangerous and puts a cop in a situation that is scary.
I think FReepers are more scared of the federal police agencies because they have more money and power and nobody puts them in check. However, nobody is for excessive force of the local cop.
There is this crazy anti cop movement from the left the last few years, in case you haven’t noticed. A movement called Black Lives Matter and it has caused the death of several officers. It’s only natural conservatives and libertarians have a knee jerk reaction to defend local cops when the lying media and lying so-called civil rights groups start screaming about an “injustice” because we know it’s usually a big fat lie created to inflame.