It pains me to say this, but what the hell did they expect?

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78. ^^This^^

Violence is never the answer, but sometimes it's the only way an issue can see daylight and get the attention it needs.

Unfortunately, the wrong (innocent people) can die for someone else's crime...just like innocent black people keep dying because of injustice in our police and legal systems.

This Philando Castile killing is especially egregious, because he did not have a record..he .owned and carried a gun legally, and was complying with the officer's demands, when after willingly informing the officer he had a concealed weapon, to prevent anything going awry, the officer overreacted and immediately assumed a threat and shot him in supposed "self defense".

If this is not a clear cut case of what our whole system is about today and how it targets innocent blacks, I don't know what could do that.

I know this officer shot out of fear for his own life, but it was unjustified and based entirely on his assumption that a black man with a gun is going to try to kill him.

I feel so defeated and hopeless. How the hell can we stop this? As long as this country has people running around with open carry or concealed carry and our police force assumes blacks are guilty, this will never ever end.