Quote:Not all police, but you have to admit it happens.

 

Regardless if the kid was guilty of stealing $50 cigars or not the shooting stinks. Why did the police wait almost a week to release this information if was an open and closed clean shooting? 

 

First of all, yes it does sometimes happen in extremely rare circumstances.  99% of all police officers do not go around shooting people for no apparent reason.

 

Nobody is saying that it's an "open and closed clean shooting".

 

All that I am saying is the only FACTS about the case that we know about is what the media reports.  Looking at what is being reported, the "child" was not an innocent person just walking to the store to get some skittles.  The guy was a thug and up to no good.  We haven't heard the other side of the story, that being what the police officer saw and encountered.

 

Was the shooting justified?  There is no saying one way or the other at this point.  All that we have are theories.  The media is trying desperately to paint this as some kind of racial issue along with "Reverend Jack Son" equating it to a "state execution".  Where was all of the outrage and statements made when some black thugs executed a white baby?  How much looting and rioting took place after that?

 

My theory is that this "model citizen" provoked the officer in some way to not only draw his weapon, but to actually force him to make the choice to use deadly force.

 

Where in the media is the side of the story of the police officer being reported?

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