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In reply to the discussion: Deputies shoot man in his front yard He was getting cigarette out of his mother's car [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)as I've said elsewhere in this thread...
He's innocent in retrospect. NOW we know what he was doing.
When the cops were called and showed up in the guy's driveway, they had no idea who he was, what he was doing, or whether or not he had a weapon.
And as I also said...if they gave him specific instructions which he did not follow, despite repeated attempts to get the message across to him, they have every right to assume there is something suspicious...or very wrong.
It's entirely possible that only one cop had an itchy trigger finger, and when he fired, the others thought he saw a real threat and fired as well. Knee-jerk reaction, sort of. Or maybe the guy reached into his pants pocket to get his wallet and ID and it looked like a very small handgun. Nobody knows the little details, but people assume it's because he was black.
There are quite a few possibilities OTHER than that they're all miserable stinking racists.