That's the point I've been trying to make...possibly badly.Nobody....not *you*...not *me*...nobody on this thread has *nearly* enough info to reach any firm conclusions.All we have at this moment is a dead guy,two short snippets of film (without audio IIRC),a story (which may or not be true) that the dead guy was discharged from the Coast Guard because of drug use and a story (which *also* may,or may not,be true) that he could have been facing more jail time for non-support.
Remember...a couple of days after the Gentle Giant case hit the news all we had was "he was running away with his hands up",a photo of GG in his graduation gown and stories of what a fine,gentle role model he was.And a couple of days after Reverend Al's arrival in Florida all we had was a cherubic photo of 12 year old Saint Trayvon and the claim that he was gunned down for the crime of buying a package of Skittles.
Maybe everyone should wait for a while before declaring the shooting either justified *or* cold blooded murder.
The film raw footage I’ve seen has audio. Not the best quality, perhaps, but it’s there.
Or, we could recognize that if we’d had equivalent footage of the Martin or Brown shootings the uproars would have never developed.
When you have very strong evidence, indeed very nearly dispositive, it is imo very different to say, “Wait and see,” than in the cases you describe, where initially there was very little real evidence.