Cops don’t mistake a car as stolen – they look up the license plate on their cop-puters and it either says stolen or just fine. They thought it was an as-yet-unreported theft because it was a BLACK man in a fancy car in a hoighty-toighty white nightborhood. Turns out he’s the son of a World Series winning baseball player.
And he was shot, while on the ground, because he asked why the cop was shoving his mom against the wall after she CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE and asked why the cops were there. His dad won the world series in ’67, so I’m just guessing his mom wasn’t that young.
He was unarmed.
He was shot while in his own driveway.
People that say “all guns should be banned, but the cops should still get them,” make me sick. The cops are the last people you want to have guns, because they are expecting to be in dangerous situations all the time and that elevates levels of stress and fight or flight hormones in your bodies regardless of how dangerous that actual situation may be. It gives them a sense of superman, “I have a gun so I’m gonna go charging in here.”
No, I don’t want them unarmed. I want them armed with restraint-only weapons. Tasers, sprays, nets, glueguns, whatever. Guns that shoot superglue strength sticky GPS locators instead of bullets, so they just have to hit the guy and wait. There is no need for lethal force.