And I want to make it clear that I believe that the overwhelming majority of police officers do their very difficult jobs competently and professionally. It is a job that I freely admit I would not want to have. And it is because these tens of thousands of police officers are so deserving of our respect that we need to clearly identify those officers who do not live up to those same standards, who panic and kill people without reasonable cause. And killing an unarmed suspect is wrong, regardless of race or past criminal record. If a suspect is unarmed then there is no threat to the officer, and if they cannot size up the situation and determine when lethal force is necessary and when it is not then the don't belong on the force. They're just making all the good cops look bad.
I think the police officer in Minneapolis who killed Justine Diamond deserves his charges and his trial, though I doubt anything will come of it. I think the officers in this shooting should face some penalty for killing this man, though I doubt they will. If that makes me anti-police in the eyes of some around here then so be it.
"...the overwhelming majority of officers do their very difficult jobs competently and professionally..."