We have the police wrongly shooting people now on a weekly basis. This needs to stop NOW. There are many culprits that have lead us to this point. One is the notion that "officer safety" is paramount when it is in fact second to the safety of the public. While we never want to have an officer killed in the line of duty the fact remains this is going to happen but what must NEVER happen is an officer killing a citizen in any situation where deadly force was not the last and only option to protect the life of the officer or another civilian. I want to emphasize I did not say "justified" but rather the LAST AND ONLY OPTION. Even a man with a gun that has knowingly committed a robbery can not be shot unless that man has a weapon at the ready or in the process to be ready to fire. Simply lifting his shirt and starting to pull out what appears to be a firearm is still a NO SHOOT situation, as the suspect may be taking the firearm out to drop it on the ground and surrender, the object may not be a firearm at all and many other possibilities.
This is a long drawn out subject but in short we need to get back to the police being "peace officers" not "law enforcers". In the end the people are the boss not the police and its time the boss put his foot down.
That's because the jury didn't see the video ...
“Folks we have a serious and daily worsening problem with the police. I have seen this video and simply cannot believe the jury aquitted this man. This was flat out murder.”
Did the jury see it? If they did then they and the cop should all be executed...in a just country.