Yes, that makes it sooooo much better.
That’s not the point.
But in every high profile shooting case so far, and even in many other high profile controversies such as the one with Ahmed Mohamed, so much of the public, including quite a few people here on Free Republic, I might add, are entirely willing to judge thing superficially on little information.
AND, in the cases of the police shootings/alleged misconduct, many are willing to jump to conclusions while saying the police are depriving people of their due process rights.
Just take the Alton Sterling video. That is commonly referred to in the MSM as “an injustice” (ABC World News Tonight’s word describing it), while the video clearly shows Sterling’s right arm was free and he appeared to struggle with the officer with it).
Yet in the MSM, in social media, and even here, people were perfectly willing to rush to judgment and call that an “execution.” No thought to possibly ruining people’s lives, and waiting for all the evidence to come out.
WORSE than all these cases themselves is that our justice system is almost being rewritten and people are being tried - and convicted - in the media and on social media. It is conventional wisdom that both George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson were cold-hearted killers that beat the system.
Well, looking at it from the Officer’s point of view, you can see where he has a point. One can do a hell of a lot of shooting with a toy truck. And said toy truck has a lot of firepower that can and will do, in the right hands,a hell of a lot of damage. In fact, if the Servicemen in world War Two had been issued toy trucks instead of rifles and pistols, the war would not have lasted two days. Also, said Officer said he joined up to save lives. And that he did. He saved no telling how many lives. He saved the therapists form getting shot by the kid with the toy truck. He saved the kid. And perhaps he prevented the kid from destroying the City and maybe the entire State with the toy truck. All in all, a good day for the Officer.