University of Alabama police officer kills naked student

[MADem]

59. I don't think it is at all productive to take any "side."

I think most people are just trying to figure out the "Why?" of all this. After all, none of us were standing by that police station window when that naked kid wandered up to it and started banging away at it. None of us were there in the wee, small hours of the morning when the confrontations occurred, either.

I rather doubt that a guy or gal serving as a "Campus Cop" in Southern Alabama goes to work each night loaded for bear, ready to shoot the "paying customers" on the campus who make their job both possible and necessary. They are there to protect the students from enemies without and preserve a modicum of order on the campus.

Some people are wondering if the kid was on bath salts or some other drug, others wonder if he was undergoing a psychotic break, I'm wondering if he made a decision to end his life and decided that it would be easier to make a cop do the dirty work for him?

There's no "side" when someone ends up dead. It's a tragedy for the family of the dead person, and it's a tragedy for the police officer who fired one single bullet.

Time will reveal more, I'm thinking. If the campus was wired for public video, that system is likely to have captured the entire incident--the police station, where the incident happened, is close to the residential halls.