Pick6;1644894 wrote:Sounds to me like the cop couldn't control his emotions in the situation.
I think this is a very real problem. Mostly because there is absolutely no way to train for it. You can be schooled on these situations a million times. But until it happens, and you feel that addreneline, that fear, you can't really be prepared.
I sat in on honolulu police situational awareness sessions. They run little exercises where you're deciding whether or not to draw your weapon. Then when to shoot. They're good exercises. But in your head you know you can't die or kill someone so there just isn't the same emotional awareness.
There are also no doubt bad cops. In fact terrible cops. But there are thousands more per every bad one that do their job very well.
I still just can't do these racial situations. IMO until black people start taking responsibility for their own actions in the street and really trying to make the situations better, things like this are going to happen again.