I posted the link to the other incident to make a point. Nobody cares when a white lady is killed by a black officer. Hell, the usual gaggle of whiny homeboys on getbig haven't even bothered to comment on the dead Hispanic.
ah, this is about race for you? I see no need to bring race into this. I have no idea the race of the cops, and I don't care.
Cops had justification to shoot when the bad guy (BG) had arock overhead. It was thin, but tazer failed and they decided to go the hard route and end a man's life because he had a rock overhead. many of us would have said he can't throw that brick very far, let's scoot back 20 feet, let him throw it, then taze more, maybe use beanbags or just stick to his knee.
no, they went VERY aggressive with guns to kill him, I get it, and I support it, even though I feel excessive. cool.
BUT this wasn't enough. He threw rock/dropped rock when they started shooting him, and he ran like crazy. You have 4-5 cops with guns trained on this wounded man, his rock is gone and if he scoops one, they'll see it. At this point, common sense, training, and moral code say you DO NOT have to kill this person anymore - he's wounded but unarmed, and going to jail shorty.
But these cops didn't have the OFF switch. Once they fired the gun, they only had one goal - catch and shoot the man more. Period. The thin justification for the initial shoot - twink with a rock - had evaporated, and we all see it.
For some getbiggers, and this is important, they let that blanket continue. They say even if a guy attacks a cop and runs 170 feet, he can be executed for it when caught. They believe a twink throwing a rock can be killed later, when cops finally catch up with him. That kind of dangerous thinking opens the door to a lot of ugly things we've seen in history. But it's the same minds that are often in denial on many other historical things, that feel this way. So I get it.