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If he had shoplifted and then stopped immediately when caught, he would not have been shot. He was shot because he was running away from police after committing a crime. Do police use their guns too much? Everyone knows the answer is YES!!!!! until that is systematically fixed, what’s the best way to personally stay out of that situation? Everyone knows that unless you lived in Memphis, the best way is to not commit crimes and to not run from or resist the police [/quote]

Running from the police isn't a crime punishable by death. Get real: the FFX police got trigger happy and blew this dude away and now they're actively covering it up.

Unless this guy had a gun on him, there's no reason for police to murder him pre-trial.[/quote]

[b]After learning of his violent history, I applaud the cops. [/b]No more of this soft on crime BS that would have had him right back out in the streets. It’s gotta stop somewhere. [/quote]

All the articles mention "his violent history," but the public has not been given details about it yet so I  will reserve judgement on that until details come out--none of you know any more about his criminal history than the rest of us. But he wasn't acting violent at the time he shoplifted the sunglasses, was he? That's what matters. Sounds like the same talk we hear every time a black man is killed by the cops--i.e., they're criminals so it's appropriate that they were killed. Murdered for trying to pass a suspected $20 counterfeit bill (George Floyd), murdered on the basis of suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps (Eric Garner), executed for stealing sunglasses. Shouldn't the punishment be proportionate to the crime?[/quote]

Right. So he’s right back out on the street with this sawed off shotgun. Makes sense.

[b]At some point, the totality of his life/crimes should be what matters.[/b] [/quote]

A judge and/or jury can look at the totality of his crimes when he appears in court--but that never happened. And regarding his past crimes, he wasn't brandishing a sawed-off shotgun at the time he was being pursued, was he? You make it sound like it's okay for cops on the street to execute perps based on the "totality of their life/crimes."  Maybe in developing countries, but not here.[/quote]

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