EDITED'Less than 24 hours after a white police officer shot and killed an African-American

[Doodley]

65. I come from a country where the cops don't even carry guns. America is

armed to the hilt. 30,000 die a year from firearms. It is a violent place and some neighborhoods are much worse. I am constantly shocked at how racist America is. It breaks my heart. I will never be content with how divided America is and how much racism I hear from so many white folk that I encounter. I will never be content with the disparity in the number of blacks who are in jail, the financial disparities and the number that are killed by cops. I will never be content with a racist pig for president. I will never forget laying in the middle of the road at 3 o'clock in the morning and seeing my world collapsing around me on the night it became clear Trump had "won" the election.

However, this guy was out of control. No, he didn't deserve to die. The police presumably weren't restraining him or using force. He was able to take the taser and run away. I don't know if there is reason to say the cops mishandled it up to that point. The question is when he turned and appeared to shoot. In that second of time, the cop may have been uncertain if that was a real gun. Was he right to shoot? That is the question. I am not going to decide this cop was racist and deliberately killed an innocent man, based on this information.