Rogue Cop?

A young man in the States is gunned down and killed by a police officer during an altercation that is reported to have ended before the shooting.  In essence, it seems the young man made some stupid choices but gave up with hands raised in the air before the cop shot him 6 times.  Sounds like murder to me.

The black citizens have been protesting in the streets ever since...some violently, some looting stores, some destroying the city they call home.  The anger is understood but not the violence and theft but those people are only using the young man's death as an excuse to commit crimes.  The true indignant protesters are the ones that the police department and all government should be paying attention to.  They know this killing was probably prompted by a rogue cop with a hatred for blacks and they know this has to stop.

We need to look beyond the violence and see the real picture here.  Don't focus on the low life black people who are using this as a reason to cause destruction, focus on the fact that an armed cop whose occupation is to protect the public opened fire on an unarmed young man who was, at the moment, no threat to anyone.  We can't allow this to be acceptable.

This might be a crime of descrimination against blacks but the real fear is that any cop could feel descrimination against any race, creed, or color.  He/she should never act on their own prejudices when upholding the law.  What if it was a black cop full of hatred for whites?  It isn't the descrimination we need to address, it's simply insistance that all police officers do their jobs legally and ethically.

I listened to a statement by the lawyer for the family of the victim and it was like a breath of fresh air to hear the grievance laid out in rational speech.  If all is as it has been reported, a terrible injustice has been done here and it should be dealt with legally.  An arrest and trial has to occur.  Not everyone will feel that justice has been done when this is all over but maybe those in power will have had their eyes opened to what will and will not be accepted by the citizens.

Maybe public outrage is necessary.