I'm sure those cops did fully "expect," even as they searched for and failed to find the gun of the dying man, and learned that their felled partner was not wounded at all, "a backlash." There was, they surely knew, a waiting constituency of African American demagogues to accuse them of racism and murder, and leftists who would see only the detail that fit their own emotional agendas and would label them racists and trigger happy.
You haven't responded to any of my many specific points or answered any of my many specific queries, though hypotheticals don't require expertise either in the case or in police procedure in general. Your ignorance of the circumstances of the shooting didn't make you hesitate to suggest with thinly veiled sarcasm that those cops should have perhaps had training in "recognizing a gun." (I imagine you didn't know about wallet guns and such, but you haven't acknowledged this.) Instead you have continued to raise the the number of shots as proof of something... malicious, peut etre? (Though actually I see that in your final post, you are expressing only surprise that they did not "expect" the predictable "backlash.") At least you've explained the reasons for your unresponsiveness.
It doesn't matter. I feel better having spoken up about it.
This isn't a hot button issue of mine, in fact. I've never had a conversation about it before. What is a hot button issue for me is political correctness and inhumane knee jerk positions on pretty much any issue from either side.
This is, in my view, a leftist version of, for example, the right's ivory-tower rationalizations of the workings in our country of the death penalty and their absolutism on abortion-prohibition. When one engages these positions, they turn out to be ignorant, cruel and agenda-driven. |
