Quote:For what it's worth:


According to ABC News,,

"Police said Johnson told hostage negotiators that he was angry about recent fatal shootings of black men by police elsewhere in the United States and that he wanted to kill white people, especially police officers."


abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-ambush-shooting-planned-thought-suspects-police-learned/story?id=40422456


-angry about fatal shootings of black men

-wanted to kill white people

-especially police officers


Take that how you will. I understand it to be:

1)Vengeful

2)Racial

3)Authority-Targeting (police)


in that order.


Side note- I also read there was an officer shot in Missouri today, which was thought to be motivated by Dallas/Minn/Louisiana. And also a shooting incident in Tenn motivated by the same. (ABC News articles linked to the above story)


This is a terrible situation getting even worse.

The shooting in TN was a mile from my house and we didn't even know that was his motive until today.


My father-in-law is a deputy and we watched the two videos. In the Castile case, he says that without video of what happened before the shooting, it's hard to say. The officer clearly says he asked him not to reach and he proceeded to anyway. Without a beginning video it's a he said/she said thing and most likely just an unfortunate accident.


In the Sterling video, he doesn't know how the officers are going to get away with that one. With the man flat on his back, unarmed, and two of them on top of him, shooting him was unnecessary and they'll more than likely be convicted of something.


I have a weird view, since I have family in law enforcement yet have some very liberal views. I can see these from a lot of angles. If there's one thing I take from these to prevent future problems, it's mandatory implementation of body cameras that don't "accidentally" stop working. In my father in law's County they don't use cameras at all because they're expensive. They don't even have dash cams.

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