[Heyworth]

What consistently stuns me in these cases is that cops have an automatic "get out of jail free/get away with murder" card. All they have to say is, "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." Amadou Diallou? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun" That guy whose face they blew off in Maryland? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." This new one? "I'm sorry, I thought he had a gun." And that's all it takes. As long as the cop simply says, "I thought he had a gun," he's essentially allowed to shoot anyone he wants. Or there's the variant, "I thought I was in imminent danger." That's the one they used in L.A. when they shot a 55 year old homeless woman with mental problems who was standing 20 feet away with a screwdriver in her hand.

[vin-one]

What can I say it happens all the time, and every now and then a bad one gets prosecuted.
Most of the time they do very well in covering it up,
hopefully this time the people take notice, and hold this JBT's feet to the fire.