re: #203 lawhawk

Cop murdered a black man in Texas, and the Texas Rangers arrested and charged the cop with murder. It must be such an explicit case of homicide that they had no choice.

But this goes to a bigger pattern of excessive force and use of deadly force among cops nationwide. Cops use their guns far more than any other OECD countries, especially our peers in the EU. They have similar crime rates, but nowhere near the gun violence. They have similar homicide rates (without the gun violence). But cops there don’t kill people with the frequency they do here - and that goes to the heart of how policing in the US is so completely and utterly broken.

The guy shot was also the town’s “black man.” He was that guy every white person could point to and say “Why can’t they all be like him.” His facebook posts were pro-police. Killing him suddenly made a small Texas town aware of what police would do.