I have watched the raw footage of the incident. The thing that I noted was that the officer on the left says a tazer was fired. Then the female officer shoots. This gave me pause after I found out she had just recently gone through a particular type of training. There are questions about the female officer in regards to time of service and had she ever been in a situation like this before. I am surmising that when the tazer went off the female officer was caught off guard and panic set in. She instinctively pulled the trigger without really thinking because she was in a high state of anxiousness actually due to her recent training and never encountering something like this before. I honestly believe that her pulling the trigger was a very tragic mistake and something she will have to live with for the rest of her life.
I came to this conclusion right before I sat down at a bar to have an enjoyable meal at a local restaurant. These two guys came up to the bar and sat down next to me. I overheard their conversation and interjected. They almost came to fist-a-cuffs with me over it. They were white. The one guy said he didn’t have time to view some stupid video on youtube and only listened to the media’s reports. They kept saying how could the guy in the helicopter know he looked like one bad dude. I tried to explain there was more to the story than the biased media. The son told me he was going to kick my behind. I laughed and ended the conversation.
The “I don’t have time like you to watch the video” stuck in my head so I gave him a few choice words that began to escalate the situation again. I told him to take his Jesus book away and run along. I wanted to gauge his reaction from this. He told me the only reason he had it at the bar was because his brother passed away and he was creating a gravestone for him. I apologized for his loss and that seemed to calm things down.
I sat there finished my meal and nursed my beer as they kept talking. I listened intently. They kept saying they didn’t want to vote for Hitlary or Trump but the POSOTUS was the greatest president. Then their conversation turned to 9/11. That was it for me when they started spouting that 9/11 was an inside job and it was a proven fact that we blew up the building with explosives. They gave all the talking points like the jet fuel was not hot enough to melt the steel etc.
I called for my check and as I was leaving the bartender who knows me really well kept giving them strange looks. My hands were in balled fists at this time. I said to the bartender, “You know I am 100% service-connected disabled veteran right?” I almost continued on with what I was going to say after that about how I had no heartbeat for a few minutes and was temporarily paralyzed so the two stupid idiots next to me could sit here in this bar and be dumb as a box of rocks. They weren’t ignorant they were were plain stupid. Ignorance is curable; stupidity can never be cured. I have been saying that since 96 and I stick by it. These guys were the embodiment of that very saying. Had they accompanied me outside, I more than likely would be sitting in jail right now facing life. Because of my disability I can never have a CCW even though I live alone. However there is more than one way to skin a cat.
The Tulsa officer has been indicted. There is no point in rioting for "justice".
The Charlotte shooting seems to be justified, therefore rioting is needed to pressure the local government to throw the officer under the bus. The objective is to make officers hesitant to shoot, even when they have good reason to.
Also, I'm guessing the Charlotte guy was a gang banger, and his fellow gang members want to make it policy that THEY are immune from police force.