Police have a deadly weapon. If they are tased that gun could be taken and used to kill people. That is why it is potentially life threatening when you attempt to tase an officer. Idk how fast it went down. The guy went to tase and then he turned his back. This is very sad to everyone that it happened. Police are human and are in potentially life threatening positions then adrenaline is natural
In fight or flight mode people are making split second decisions to stay alive.16k murders in a year where the cops show up and the guys are already dead. They see and cope with shit daily the average person thinks about in their nightmares. If white privilige so great, why do white guys kill themselves faster than any other group of people? Today, lately, people call you racist for even saying something true like that, to even suggest we should have compassion for each other. Its awful what happened and tragic and I don't think anyone is happy about it. If you want to give death penalty to a cop, what about all those murders where the shooter wasnt putting his life on the line to protect and serve the public? 16k cases, people murdering over jealousy money cheeseburger nothing whatever. I did some work for amnesty international and research on the death penalty. Brutalilty leads to more brutality and it doesnt bring people back. We need to work on reducing violence in our community. How people talk about blaming just cops and abolishing cops? You gonna call ghostbusters to come over when gunshots at the neighbors house that smells like cooking meth? You gonna call the local gangs? I don't really think we want them in charge. Talk about improvements better ways compassion understanding healing

The reason the police went after him instead of letting him walk home? Because it was a "free bust", another ex con they can throw into jail for no reason and pad their stats and those of the DA. Even though the cops deserve prosecution we have to understand what the DA is doing right now, he is over charging them, he prosecutes the cops on a violation he cannot possibly prove in court and they lose the case (as planned). Cops go free, the union is appeased and the DA looks like he tried. It's a scam.

So police officers are protesting because they are being challenged on shooting people running away from them? This is comical...what harm is done if a person runs away? The police want to view a ‘running person’ as a threat to them! Just this morning,...an 18 yr old security guard in Calif was shot, because he was scared and ran...and even though he had a gun he never accessed it! Police are trying to ‘scare’ people into submission and when they act from their own natural fear with ‘fight or flight,’ they are shot! The police have been given the right to not be fearful!! If they ‘feel’ fear, they can shoot...what person would not ‘feel fearful’ if caught in an unknown situation? The impossible is being expected of both officer and citizen! So both are being de-humanized, for the sake of using their PRECIOUS gun to kill! Who gives a shit about the citizen that ‘fears!’ His fears are not worth anything! The problem I see here is the officer has permission to kill anyone who opposes him for any reason (otherwise why are so many people killed mistakenly), and yes...the black community is having it the worse...as they are perceived as criminal and possibly having many offenses right off the bat! The officers get applauded for getting the criminal off the streets! Who cares if these offenses are so minor that they wouldn’t pass the ‘smell test’ for criminal activity? The fines were not paid! They never took responsibility...who cares that their low wage job, would never be enough for their survival and so many fines for ‘minor’ infractions found by the law enforcement!

Every one is loosing here, the way the system is rigged up! It isn’t humane, from any angle! The officer who kills will have that on his conscience, into his old age and it want support his better mental health! That’s science!! The people who are witness to these killings are left with these images to give them sadness for as long as they live! And then we have the families of the person killed, working out their grief and anger...for ever how long that takes? Maybe never, so their mental health plays out in society in a negative way...health wise, or visited upon the greater society! The degradation and killing of people for insane reasons hurts society as a whole! I myself loose sleep over every deliberate killing! I cannot be alone! The people with the ‘authority’ have gone overboard with who has rights in this Country and who is dispensable! I am sick of it!

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Some of his fellow officers called in sick, possibly in protest of them being charged. That says a lot about some policemen. They kicked Brooks AFTER he was shot like he was a runaway slave. This was their answer for handling a minor offense. They could've just let him walk to his sister's house a few blocks away and squashed it but naw, you've got to have something on you nigger and if not we'll make something.