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I believe that all evidence should be looked at.

Remember when one of our Marines shot a wounded jihadi in a mosque in Fallujah?

There was a rush to judgement on that young Marine, the video looked terrible, as if it were an execution, and that was the way it was portrayed in the media all around the world including, shamefully, in our own country.

Turns out that yes, that Marine was under huge stress, they had been engaging in house to house combat, clearing one house after another for weeks, and they had seen some of their own guys killed by jihadis who were playing dead to facilitate our Marines getting close enough to where the jihadi could plug them with a bullet or blow themselves up.

When that young Marine saw the “dead” jihadi in a row of dead jihadis suddenly move, he fired first screaming “He’s faking!” (This is from memory)

I want to see more information on this. I am in no way excusing the police, because what we can see is indefensible, no matter what happened before it. But is that murder, or not following training/procedures because of something surrounding that situation we are unaware of. There is no way that cop should have had his knee on the neck of a cuffed suspect. None. They don’t train that way. In the middle of the back, yes, but not on the neck. So there is no defending that.

But before I am ready to agree with a mob that wants them hanged outright, I want to make sure I see all the factors laid out first.

I fully agree there are cops in this country who shouldn’t be cops, never mind the kind of cops who carry automatic weapons and wear full body armor.

But at the same time, they have to do the dirty work of interacting with the seamy underbelly of our society, they have to see the worst of human behavior, day after day. And I believe, if we farm that work out to them so we don’t have to deal with that seamy underbelly, we should at the very least be willing to look at everything surrounding the incident before joining a mob calling for their heads.

It is what we should do.

And I know we haven’t done that yet.