>And times like this I feel a lot of conflict personally.
>
>Like "oh they didn't shoot him? Must be white"
>
>I have those same thoughts but I was listening to the police
>frequency and heard them exchange fire with him.
>
>And i heard whoever was in command warn everyone on the the
>scene that he might be ready to surrender and basically warn
>everyone not to be quick on the trigger. Do they shoot him
>with his hands up if he's black? Maybe, I don't know, but I
>was listening and these were clearly highly trained officers
>who were 100% ready to kill if necessary but not eager to kill
>by any means.
>
>I don't know. It just saddens me how quick people are to pick
>teams and fight for that team when this happens. A college
>campus cop was killed trying to respond. At least two people
>who were at the clinic are dead and they were probably
>bleeding out for hours while police tried to stabilize the
>situation and had at least 1 killed and 4 others shot in the
>process.
>
>The whole thing is awful and I'm not at all eager to use it to
>serve my political agenda.

I think this is the way it should be, but it isn't in a lot of instances where there are blacks/other minorities involved IMO. On the one hand this resolution might be the model I desire for all police confrontations but it only makes me more angry about the ones that don't go this way for minorities and how minority voices who share my concerns get trivialised or dismissed by the media or law makers.

>
>Edit: also thank you for the compliment

I think you make an honest attempt to be balanced, that's important in this polarised day and age.