So your point is that the shooting was justified because the person did not behave in the manner you and the police think he should behave? You think it’s OK for a cop to shoot someone because they are not doing what they are told? You would have loved Soviet Russia. It was your kind of place.
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Actually, outside of the border areas at least, the cops weren’t as trigger-happy as the World’s Most Free Country’s Guardians of Law and Order.
You’re just arguing a philosophical point here.
Is buying a lottery ticket ever the “right thing” from an economic perspective? The expected value is always negative so I’d say no, but what you’re saying is if they luck into a jackpot the answer becomes yes.
I still say they did the wrong thing, they just got lucky.
They do sometimes have investigations and reviews (very sadly done by other cops) but it’s not always the case that a shooting means the cop did wrong.
And you miss the point entirely…
You suggest he was killed for not-complying. That is false.
He was killed because he gave every indication he was drawing a gun on the cop.
Except for having a gun. Shooting an unarmed person is cowardly and should never ever happen. Being a pussy who jumps at shadows is no excuse for murder.
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Name three?
Since they (cops) are shooting to death between 2 and 3 people per day (on average), you should have no few cases to choose from among.
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You started. 
Yes. The difference is between “Will it be a right thing to do?” to which the answer is “likely no”, and “was it a right thing” to which the answer rarely becomes “yes”.
Similarly, shooting by a cop is usually not a bad idea, albeit it rarely has to be done. This was not that case.
Not always. Way too often yes, however. Too many false positives on the to-shoot-or-not-to-shoot decision, as Hamlet would say if he was a policeman.
Or attempting to show that they are unarmed. “No fool [I don’t have a weapon]”.
A scaredy cat does not have a place in the police force, outside of being a desk jockey on paper-pushing duty.
He was killed because a scared little boy with a gun as his only defense against big bad world, despite being in tactical advantage and having a backup, seriously misjudged the situation.
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Why do police act like it’s their job to put holes in (mostly black) people?
Because, essentially, it is.
This is interesting.
The NYPD can’t hire the non-white officers they’d like to because disproportionate targetting of them in police policies has left too many with criminal records.
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yup. part of the whole game is creating a legal record, getting fingerprints, photos, etc. going from as young an age as possible.
that record helps with convictions, and justification of force, later on. ( hey, we must be doing a great job, look at all the people with petty crimes we’re arresting as adults. )
it’s also used to help exclude minorities in majority-minority areas from gaining power. whites wind up the only electable, sometimes even the only employable folks in the area.
what used to be explicit racism can now even be couched in terms of economics because after 50ish years of this since civil rights, gee: those areas are poor, disadvantaged, and full of “criminal elements”.
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