[DoodleDawg]

About the only inaccuracy was that the officer fired seven shots and not five.

In both cases the police officer used deadly force in a situation that did not call for it. In both cases a person is dead who should not be dead, killed by a police officer who probably should never have been a police officer. In the Castile case the police officer got of by claiming he feared for his life. I expect the police officer in the Diamond case will use the same defense with the same results.

[Freedom4US]

And what result is that?

Millions of dollars of taxpayer money paid out as settlements to the victim’s family. Any sane person supports law and order, though they have to figure out how to decouple taxpayer dollars from being used as an ATM by the legal system every time they f&$k up. There needs to be a direct feedback mechanism. Take it out of their pension fund.

At least one might think they would be a little more circumspect about whom they hire? Just thinking outloud. The cops deserve our support - guess who the mob is going after, once the police has been eliminated - but I don’t see why my property taxes have to go to pay for these knuckleheads that shouldn’t be on the force in the first place.

[zeugma]

In the Castile case the police officer got of by claiming he feared for his life. I expect the police officer in the Diamond case will use the same defense with the same results.

I suspect you are right. Of course if your average citizen were to just kill some random unarmed person because they made a "furtive movement" or just because they were scared of the dark, we'd not get the same consideration. The king can kill his subjects any time he so pleases.

[Thud]

And in both cases the shooting officer almost nailed his partner. Look at the panicked expression on the face of the Castile shooter's partner as he dives out of the line of fire. This Minneapolis shooter's partner was in the patrol car driver's seat while the shooter in the front passenger fired right by him. With multiple expected shots from a .40 right by his ear, there is a real good chance of a permanent disability claim.

It will be real interesting to find out if both shooters were sterling graduates of the same POST academy.