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

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219. What were the alternatives? In the time it would take to unholster the taser, for example,

the other girl would have been stabbed and possibly dead. If we demand cops hesitate when faced with what appeared to be a deadly attack because the shooter/knifer/assaulter is black and not white, there will be a lot of unnecessarily dead victims. Things aren't cut and dried as some seem to wish. And I would say this whether the dead girl was black, white or something in between. It's tragic, but telling cops not to act in the face of imminent danger isn't the solution. For starters, let's try to figure out why there is a generation that seems so comfortable resorting to weapons to settle their differences. Our whole culture has evolved into violence. Mass shootings every day. Threats and insults rather than solutions to problems. The girl's death is a tragedy, but at this point our entire country is a tragedy. There must be reforms to policing AND to our culture in general.