Too many white cops imo are scared shitless of black men and would rather shoot them--in the gut, no less, an injury that's usually fatal--than try to understand what's going on. I don't know what we can do about this, but I think it might be helpful to assign beat cops to black neighborhoods with the assignment of meeting and befriending the families--even the young black men!--who live there. That kind of fear usually comes from unfamiliarity.

And it's not always unjustified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/09/gentle-georgia-man-accused-of-ambushing-police-officer-following-fake-911-call/

When police in Valdosta, Ga., received a report for a car break-in at a local apartment complex around 8 a.m. Friday, they thought it was a routine call.
But as soon as Officer Randall Hancock stepped out of his patrol car, police said, someone started shooting at him.
At least two bullets struck Hancock in his protective vest, but a third struck him underneath it, “in the abdomen area,” according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
“Officer Hancock returned fire, striking the individual and stopping him from firing at him,” the statement said. “The individual was unknown to Officer Hancock at the time of the encounter.”
Investigators would later determine that the man behind the trigger was the same man who called 911 to report the break-in.

Because it DOES appear you came back here to defend a couple of dumb assed half wits.

I'm sorry for not making that clear in my post, but I sometimes assume people will take that for granted.

I personally wouldn't have a gun in my hand if I knew cops were on the way, at least not out in the open. I'd probably have the gun in hand inside a bedroom, looking outside for the arriving cops, and then put the gun away.

If the husband was shot immediately simply for holding a gun in his garage, it's an outrage. I hope there's video of it to clarify what happened.

My earlier post made reference to a cop being shot for responding to a similar 9-1-1 call. Why is that confusing?

We are used to hearing about black people being shot for doing nothing wrong.


The cops - that's a one off. Your article is a one off.

The op is standard operating procedure in America.

"Why is that confusing?"

Possibly because you're broadening a premise beyond its original scope, and arguing an anecdotal point that was not made by anyone but you.

I'm aware that African Americans are shot more frequently by cops, per capita, and that's not right.