In Columbus, a cop shot a 15-year-old girl 10 SECONDS after he arrived on the scene

[StarfishSaver]

28. No, Boo. I often think shootings are justified

But I also don't automatically assume that every shooting is justified or believe that cops who shoot 15-year-old Black girls 10 seconds after arriving on the scene deserve the benefit of the doubt.

The cop did absolutely nothing to try to intervene, stop or deescalate the situation - something they are trained to do. He just started firing. That is NOT by the book.

And those "snap judgments" always seem to involve shooting black people to death. We don't nearly as often see white people - even white people waving guns and knives and even white people who have already killed people - shot down this way. The police have tools and training to deal with those situations. But too many cops see Black people as inherently dangerous and far more dangerous than they see white people and their first reaction to too many situations is to use deadly force when they would not do the same with white people.

So, no I don't automatically assume shootings of Black people are justified. The question is why, given all that we've seen over the past few years, would anyone?