This is a terrible tragedy being made into a racial issue by self serving thugs, leftist politicians criminals and sensationalist journalists. Any cop will tell you, we don’t care if you are black, white, yellow or purple with pink polka dots, if we are in a struggle with anyone trying to take our gun, we have to protect ourselves because the likely outcome of losing that battle is the officer losing his life. Plain and simple. I am totally disgusted by this whole mess, and even more disgusted with the racial divisiveness perpetrated on this country by our own elected left wing officials including the president.
The kid was doped enough to not really know what the heck he was doing. I read a day ago that his THC levels were noted in the autopsy were enough by new Colorado standards that if you were driving....you’d be losing your license. I feel sorry for the kid, but this is the new environment we live in...people doped up and doing stupid stuff....some live and some die.
Early this year, I was visiting relatives in Alabama. Locals news picked up on a kid who’d knocked at the door of a neighbor. Kid was around 17. Kid was looking for the old guy’s son...who he had issues with. Son wasn’t around....kid says fine...he’d just go and beat this guy up (old guy was in mid-60s). Old guy got knocked back on one punch, retreated to kitchen, then pulled out a shotgun and put a round of buck-shot into the kid’s leg. Cops and ambulance come....kids folks arrive and are very apologetic....kid is on meds and has recently acted a bit disturbed. Kid is lucky to be alive, but likely limping the rest of his life.
This is how things are today....you do something stupid, you might not be living or you might be in the hospital.