And yet, you don't seem to be discusted at all by a white cop that would shoot a man in cold blood, a man who had committed no crime and had his hands up, apparently solely based on the color of his skin and her inherent fear of him.
I have to tell you, I am not disgusted by it either, at least not at this point. The original 911 caller reporting the incident said he witnessed a man running from the vehicle saying it was going to blow up, and added "I think he's smoking something". The officer that ended up shooting him said he appeared to be on something, and now it has been reported that PCP was found in the vehicle. Being on drugs is not a reason to be shot, but it would explain behavior that would probably make any policeman nervous, especially when that person appears to be trying to get into their vehicle. The helicopter video I saw did show his hands up while he was walking, but around 22 seconds into the video he appears to drop his hand down, the helicopter swings around to the other side of the vehicle and we can't really see what is going on, and then around 32 seconds in he falls. It doesn't appear as though his hands were raised at the time he was shot. This cop may or may not have been justified, but more evidence needs to come out before I make that call.
But you not only know she's guilty from what you have seen, but because she is white and he is black, you know that apparently she shot him just due to the color of his skin. When the black police officer shot Daniel Harris, an unarmed white man, just over a month ago, there was much criticism over it, but in all the talk over it I never heard it suggested that he was shot due to his race. It's known that there was a high speed chase involved, so Daniel wasn't cooperating, but it's also known that Daniel is deaf and that might have played a role in the incident. While it might still be proven that the cop was not justified in shooting him, it's funny how when the races are reversed like in this incident, not only is there no cry of racism, but the shooting of an unarmed man also doesn't really get national exposure. There have been other white unarmed white guys shot in the last month or two, Dylan Noble being another.
Obviously, if a policeman has no justification for a shooting, they should be dealt with harshly. But I don't understand jumping to conclusions before all the evidence is out. I still remember reading Johnathan Capehart's opinion in the Washington Post, concerning the Michael Brown shooting, and how he had his hands up and how it was definitely an unjustified shooting based on race. Weeks later he had to write another article apologizing for making assumptions when the facts came out and showed that the policeman himself was acting in self defense. In my opinion, instead of constantly attacking the police for the job they are doing, why is there no criticism of all these people out there who are not obeying the orders of police officers?
