The police need better training, better options, etc.
It is not merely black lives. It is lives coming into contact, with police.
More whites and Hispanics are killed, in similar situations.
@truth_seeker The guy was bigger and stronger than either cop,full of adrenaline,and on drugs.
Pretty hard to subdue someone like that while following the current rules.
The safest thing to have done was hit him with the stun gun,but that can't be done anymore unless he is resisting arrest,and the other cop couldn't do it at the beginning because he wasn't resisting. By the time he was resisting,he couldn't do it without also zapping the cop that was wrestling with him.
Still,there was no justification for shooting him. They had his car,his ID,and they knew where he lived. The worse that would have happened was it would have taken them a few days to arrest him.
Big flipping deal.