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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]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And he wasn't "running around with a fun at night and ALLEGEDLY (interesting choice of words on your part) shooting at cars" when he was shot. He had his hands up in the air as ordered by the police. You have no idea whether he was shooting at cars, but it's interesting you're willing to factor that into your justification for his being shot dead on the street by a police officer after he ordered him to put up his hands and he was obviously not shooting at anyone or anything.
We are seeing, almost weekly, that Black and Brown people are not safe no matter WHAT we do. We get shot when we comply, we get shot when we don't comply, we get shot at 2 am. We get shot at 4 pm. We get choked at 11 am. We get killed when we're "running around." We get shot when we're walking home from the store. We get shot when we're jogging. We get shot when we're sleeping in our beds. We get shot when we're in our apartment eating pizza.
So please spare us the he wasn't safe because he was running around ALLEGEDLY shooting at cars excuse.