The issue in the Minneapolis police shooting

[MineralMan]

6. Experienced cops often get to choose the shifts they want

to work. Rookies end up working the overnight shift, because who wants to work in the middle of the night. Perhaps that should change. But that's how things are in most cities. Those two cops were working a very quiet precinct in Minneapolis. They weren't in the district that has problems at bar-closing time. Where they were is one of the quietest residential parts of Minneapolis. Perhaps that's why two less-experienced cops were there. I don't know.

What I do know is that the cop in the passenger seat shot across the cop in the driver's seat of the squad car. That, in itself, is really, really poor procedure. He couldn't even see the person he shot clearly, and may not even have seen anything but a torso. He shot at that torso through the window on the other side of the car.

He shot before actually assessing the situation. He shot immediately. That shot killed a nice woman who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind the home where she was staying. She went out to meet the officers to responded to that call. Personally, I would not have done that. Especially at night and in an alley. But, she did go out to talk to the officers, perhaps to give them some additional information.

We'll never be able to ask her, because she is dead from a gunshot wound to the abdomen from close range.