Why did Keith Scotts family lie about the gun?

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57. Whoa...

It wasn't the family who talked about him having a book. It was a person who lives near the bus stop where he waited daily to pick up his child. The neighbor said he sat in his car reading almost every day while he waited for the bus. She said he was reading that day and that she saw the book fall to the ground when he got out of the car.

Your own version, Lee-Lee, has the family inventing the story, which isn't true. I saw the interview with the bus-stop-neighbor, and have seen no reference to her being a family member. If she is, indeed, a family member, please point me to a credible source for verification. Meanwhile, there's no reason for the family not to believe the bus-stop-neighbor, particularly if they know it was customary for him to read while waiting for the bus.

Furthermore, there's no evidence that he actually had a gun. But let's say he did. Unless he was aiming it at the cops, he could and should have been restrained using non-lethal methods. But even if he'd been aiming at cops, it takes little time and research to find many instances of cops dealing with white people quite differently from the way they treat black people. How about backing off and having some damn patience? I bet his wife could've defused the situation if given the chance.

I heard his wife trying to tell the cops that he had a TBI. That stands for Traumatic Brain Injury, which could mean that he was having difficulty processing the events and responding. This reminds me of the video of the cops tasering and pepper-spraying a man who was in the midst of a stroke. Poor guy was black, of course.

There are too many trigger-happy cops who are cops for all the wrong reasons. They're in it for the perceived power, not to help their communities. Too many cops are too eager to use last-resort techniques first. I watched the video of the cops pepper-spraying the teenager who wouldn't pull her feet into the (police) car. It's absurd on its face that several cops don't know the techniques for getting someone entirely into the back of a car without violence, tasers or pepper-spray. So instead of using sensible law enforcement tactics, they pepper sprayed a teenager. How sad that some grown-up cops couldn't get a 15yo girl into the back of a car. (And yes, there are actual ways to do it, even with large adults.)

Even if that girl were the worst kid on the planet, I can well imagine that as a black person, she was terrified by those cops. I don't know any black people who aren't scared. Even black celebrities and lawmakers have publicly talked about how frightened they are and how they have to talk to their own children about being black in America. And y'know what?...that says it all.

Lastly, it's simply not true that people who lie about police misconduct "get a pass". Where are you coming up with these ridiculous notions?