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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]stillspkg
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Remember the context. We are all old enough to know that those who guard our safety are taught restraint. And, I have never heard of a situation where a police officer is justified in shooting within seconds after shouting an order. Think about the fact that this young man who now literally has no voice is on trial. What has happened to us that we would miss this context. IMHO, this is the very "normalizing" many of us warned about. We cannot be outraged by impassioned cries when those voices are a lifeline.
There is a difference between impassioned care and blind support; one requires little effort. Justice is easily lost in the court of public opinion where good and reasonable people are drawn into arguments far and afield from the context. We can reasonably assume that
the young man who was slain feared for his life. We cannot assume that the police officer was thinking for even one of those milliseconds and yet those milliseconds will matter more than the amount of thought the situation really required. There is a vigilant movement in our country whose target is the disenfranchised among us. Where do we draw the line and,...where is the line?