I don't know how the case will come out, although I suspect it will be harder to convict the cop of anything beyond manslaughter or the S.C. equivalent. He looks to me like someone who panicked rather than someone really evil. Then again, the guy is still dead.
I do find some of the outrage from white liberals hypocritical. People have been cheering the
"reduced crime rate" and the "improved policing" that caused it for at least two decades. They knew, or should have known, what it involved: more or less systematic intimidation of population groups who were perceived, rightly or wrongly, as potential criminals. It's like the North, which made a fortune from the slave trade, turning around and saying, "the slaves in the South were mistreated? We had absolutely no idea."
Without this debate, this kind of thing will keep happening, prosecuting the individual cops is unavoidable but it won't change the result.
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