[Responsibility2nd]

Can you imagine if Shaver were black?

First of all there would have been race riots across the country. Secondly, the cop would have been convicted of murder and sentenced to 10 years or more.

Black Lives Matter. Drunk white guy? Ehh. Not so much.

[DiogenesLamp]

If Shaver had been black, this thing would have blown up in all their faces. That guy would be in prison, unquestionably.

I read on the website called "heavy" that the Cop's dad worked for the police department in "Internal affairs" division.

https://heavy.com/news/2016/03/philip-mitch-brailsford-mesa-police-officer-daniel-shaver-father-wife-photos-murder-gun-court-video/

[spetznaz]

I agree with your first point (riots), but disagree anything would have happened to the cops (10 years plus). Uniformed officers of the law can shoot anyone - perp or not - with almost absolute impunity, and the color of one’s skin doesn’t make a difference. In fact, the only cop I’ve ever seen convicted (not taken to court ...convicted) was the Somali cop in Minneapolis that shot that white lady. Every single other case I’ve seen has resulted in the cop being exonerated.

To be honest, the only example I know is one (the shooting of Walter Scott by Michael Slager, which by the way some on FR claimed was a righteous kill, but I digress since the jury thought otherwise). The only other I know is for a Florida cop called Nouman Raja who was sentenced for up to 25, but Raja is Indian so it wasn’t exactly a white cop-black person thing.

Anyway, there would have been riots but no conviction. A police department brazen enough to rehire a person just so he can get a pension wouldn’t have worried much about race.