On Sunday, June 14, 2020, at 9:08 PM, immortal.discoveries wrote:
> ****Wait. If the cop knew he'd go to jail and pay a million like the other 
> cop did, then why would he shoot? He did it in self defense.

If this logic actually worked, no one would commit serious crimes ever. And 
yet, people do. Maybe the cop shot because he knew people like you would assume 
he was acting in self-defense no matter what he actually did. This is one 
reason why it's hard to hold the police accountable for bad behavior: the 
public gives them too much benefit of the doubt.

What the cop did was objectively not self-defense. Shooting a man dead when he 
is running away and armed with only a taser isn't self-defense.

So no ... the cop shot Rayshard because Rayshard was resisting arrest. Arrest 
for what? For sleeping in his car while drunk. What a silly thing to kill 
somebody over. Rayshard wasn't an immediate danger to anyone, so there was no 
need for him to die.
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