Deputies shoot man in his front yard He was getting cigarette out of his mother's car

[muriel_volestrangler]

187. The police have the 911 audio; the police know who the caller was

Not anyone else. If they say they're not commenting, you can't know anything about the call. Yes, it's Mr. Middleton's home; "Deputies shoot man in his front yard". His mother was also home; you can assume that from it being her car that he was in (yes, it's possible she was somewhere else, and he had driven it without her, but that's unlikely; the next story did confirm she was there too). But that doesn't tell us anything significant about the shooting anyway.

" But frankly its shoddy. It also shows no sensitively towards the issues for which the state and country are reeling."

WTF? Are you saying that people should be feeling sorry for the police, the day after they've repeatedly shot at a man in his own driveway? I'll repeat: the story does not mention Mr. Middleton's color. So what are 'the issues' here - that the police have a tendency to shoot innocent people?

" They needed to be extra diligent to get it right"

In what way are you claiming they got it wrong?

Finally, let's compare your new-found concern to 'show sensitivity towards the issues for which the state and country are reeling' with how you started this sub-thread:

"Is the neighbor who called police white? because it matters if the narrative is to survive "
" the budding narrative is racially motivated ... the newspaper made sure we know Mr Middleton's race and his side of the story. I'm not saying he's lying in anyway. but there are always two sides to a story"

Not much concern for sensitivity there, was there? You accused the paper of building a racial narrative.