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In reply to the discussion: I fully understand that this post is likely to draw very intense personal criticism but, at my age, [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)He put his hands up as ordered. The cop then shot him with his hands up.
Usually, the excuse given to justify cops killing unarmed black men is that the black man didn't comply. That excuses an operable here. So now people are coming up with other bullshit excuses like well he may have handed the gun off to someone else before he put his hands up. Even if he had done that - and there's no evidence that he did - that is absolutely no justification to shoot him.
These kinds of arguments are exactly why people are marching in protest. We are sick of cops killing our children - especially when we know that white men and boys are not subjected to the same harassment and abuse even when behaving in much more threatening ways - and we are sick of people justifying it.