What many here fail to understand- in regards to the Sterling shooting et al; is the specific situations surrounding the shooting.
A lot of you are seeing the video through untrained eyes first off. Without knowing or maybe just without considering ALL of the variables.
Let me break it down a bit:
1) A call was received stating a man was brandishing a firearm (Matching Sterlings description).
2) Officers showed up and the man fitting the description was non-compliant to their orders.
3) When they tried to get him cuffed so they could do their jobs as law enforcement officers- he resisted arrest.
4) In the video, it is hard to see, but it appears his right arms goes towards his pocket, that's when one of the LEO's say's "He's got a gun" and that's when he gets shot. You can see the LEO picking up a gun from Sterlings right side as he is getting up.
We do not have all of the info on this case as of yet either, so speculate all you want, but please withhold judgement until we have more info.
Sterling is no saint, he has a rap sheet, check it out.
There are folks who believe LEO's are out too get black people. The facts do not support this.
Are there bad cops? You betcha! Just like any other walk in life, but unlike all those other walks of life, when a cop is bad it is much worse as they are tasked with policing the community and have authority that can be abused in very negative fashion.
That's not all cops, that's not anywhere close to a majority of cops. It's a small minority. VERY SMALL.
I see these types of shootings and put myself in the shoes of the people who were shot. Here's how I see it.
If the police were called out and I matched a description of someone doing something wrong and I wasn't doing anything wrong. I'd simply speak with them, listen to them and it would be resolved. If they decided to charge me I would fight it in COURT, not with them.
If you resist the orders of LEO's and resist arrest- you SHOULD absolutely expect to get roughed up and if you continue to resist and reach for a gun, you SHOULD absolutely expect to get shot.
It's called "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
It's incredible that there are so many folks willing to demonize officers before facts are in and we even know what happened.
Video's are hard to understand. The tone of the interaction between LEO's and the suspect is hard to understand unless you are there. How things can go sideways in seconds is hard to understand unless you've been in a situation like this and know it well.
IF a shooting is a bad shoot, then by all means charge the F out of the LEO and make them responsible for their actions, if it was justified then give them a hi-five and move on.
On to a the bigger issue.
Radicalism and wedge issues- splitting the country down any type of line possible and turning citizen against citizen.
The BLM movement is ridiculous. If black lives mattered (All of them) to these people why don't they focus their attention on places like Chicago where 2,000 people and counting have been murdered this year?
Why is it that black lives taken by other black people (Unless in uniform) don't matter; only the ones taken by white police officers matter?
They shut down interstates (Illegally) and actively stir shit up. It's big business. Soro's has given tens of millions of dollars to these people to F shit up. It's a distraction. Watch my left hand, pay no attention to my right hand...
It's because the media and the government seemingly want the racial divide to widen. They want to divide between upper class and lower class to widen. They want the divide between Liberals and conservatives to widen. They want the divide between Republicans and Democrats to widen. The want the divide between LEO's and citizens to widen.
Every news hit piece and every Presidential address in the aftermath of these shootings foment hatred and division.
The instability we are seeing right now is being created from within from the top down.
You must ask yourself why? Why is it that they want the citizens of this nation to be divided? Huh, let me think- it's because we are so easy to control when we are pitted against one another. When they can force us to choose a side and hate the other side they've won. They can walk out any old anti-liberty anti American law based on peoples fear and- watch the left hand not the right hand- poof we lose a bit more of our national identity and our freedoms each day.
Stop falling for the BS and switch your brains back on.
The police as a whole are not out to kill black people. Black people as a while are not out to kill white people.
What is happening is the Federal government and its propaganda arm the main stream media IS out to divide each and every one of us in any way they can. Control, money, power, etc.
Do not succumb to the fear, do not allow them to change what makes this country great for the false sense of "safety". Safety does not and will NEVER exist. It's the promise of the tyrant. The hope of the blind.
Turn off the partisan hate machine, stop being radicalized to further agendas working against all of us and turn your brains back on.
Our future depends on us all breaking these modern day chains of being enslaved by the radical fear mongering dicks on both sides of the political isle.
Wake up!