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In reply to the discussion: I fully understand that this post is likely to draw very intense personal criticism but, at my age, [View all]kacekwl
(7,016 posts)Not a case of a cop harassing then escalating a situation involving a person of color for little or no reason like so many others we've seen. To lay the death of Adam solely on the officer calling it an execution based on race is wrong in this case. I've had the opportunity to participate in a class that put me in a live action video that put me in varied situations where I was armed with a gun and was confronted by people, some obviously posed a threat others not so obvious. The decision to fire my gun or be shot or attacked was milliseconds. Sometimes I was correct in my decision sometimes I fired when didn't have to. We also did a school shooting with a unknown number of shooters roaming the school. Again to shoot or not decisions had to be made. I swear by the end I was sweating, shaking and felt ill for days. Believe me there a certainly enough cases at cops killing black and brown people seemingly for sport and fun to justify everyone's outrage and anger but in my mind this is not one of them.