Woman, 18, Shot by School Officer Removed From Life Support

[Jedi Guy]

12. "STOP GIVING COPS THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT."

I'll give the benefit of the doubt where and when I please, thanks very much.

If you want someone to join you in screaming "bLuE mAn BaD" every time a cop shoots someone, I can't help you there. The reality is that sometimes officer-involved shootings are justified, such as in the case of Michael Brown. Sometimes they aren't, such as in the case of Walter Scott. Context matters. The details matter. The facts matter. No two shootings are exactly alike.

Are there things about police culture that need to change? That's absolutely true. The "warrior" mentality training needs to go away because it teaches cops to treat citizens as threats. I'll also agree with you that the blue wall of silence needs to go away, for obvious reasons.

By the by, you'd never, ever call the cops? So if someone were forcing his way into your home and you had no avenue of escape, you wouldn't call the cops? I am, to say the least, skeptical. And they don't solve shit? Weird, I wonder how all these criminals keep getting caught.

Are there shithead cops? You bet, because cops are people, and people can be shitheads. But most cops are decent people doing a difficult, dirty job the vast majority of people couldn't imagine doing. So I'll keep on giving them the benefit of the doubt when I like and you'll keep vilifying them all, because neither of us is going to change the other's mind.