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.
Then what is? You're trying to link it with other questionable shootings when there is no comparison. The police were not struggling with the autistic kid. They had no idea if he was holding a weapon. The eventual victim was telling the police, pleading with the police not to shoot but to let him calm the kid down. The police shot anyway, trying to blow a away an autistic and unarmed kid, missing him entirely and hitting the unarmed victim. How anyone can look at that and say, "Yeah there might be some validity to the police actions" is way beyond me.