This sentence is worth a consideration. It has really nothing to do with race, if a policeman on duty being attacked fires on a criminal regardless if the criminal is carrying a weapon or not.Cornfed wrote: ... and in any case, most of these shootings seem to be justified...
Outside of USA nobody would care about the race.
The problem is in this case with the proof - Was this (white) policeman really attacked by this (black) man or not?
If not, why should a policeman, who had never any bad record, kill a man 'out of nothing'? This does not make any sense to me.
The US-press is rather biased calling this 19 y/o dead man a 'kid', but a 19 y/o man is no 'kid' anymore, he is an adult.