most telling in this video is that DuBose literally did nothing wrong, was complying with the officers commands, and was not belligerent nor disrespectful towards the officer. as usual, i challenge all the apologists for these events to point to the exact moment in the video linked below where DuBose deserved to die. the same justifications come out when these killings happen all the time: if only he complied with the officer, if only he didn't attack/mouth-off/raise-something-that-might-be-construed-as-a-weapon/put-his-hands-where-the-officer-couldn't-see-them/whatever-rationale-is-needed-to-justify-killing-yet-another-unarmed-black-person. oh, and let's not forget the all-time classic "well, it's extremely dangerous to be a police officer, so of course they're going to kill someone who threatens them." thanfully we are seeing more and more how police forces lie and distort reality to justify murdering the citizens they're sworn to protect. now we just need to stop believing the lies and start holding these officers accountable for their actions.

Who has been defending this one? Who has been unilaterally declaring that all police shootings are automatically acceptable? You and your fellow apologists for the urban thug crowd are the ones who reflexively pick sides based on the skin color of one element and the occupation of the other. It's always the same, with the initial rush to condemnation and then the so-called "apologists" gaining momentum as the facts slip out around the mainstream media narrative. No one defends the practice of police shootings as universally as you and yours rush to defend those who get into confrontations with police. None of us deny the possibility that a police officer could commit murder (we are usually the ones who bring up Dillon Taylor, for example, while your ilk keep pretending he didn't exist), the way you refuse to allow for the possibility that anyone who is not white or conservative could be the party at wrong in a confrontation with law enforcement, or that the deaths of black people are sometimes tragic accidents that don't have anything to do with racism or malice on the part of the cops, such as Tamir Rice or Amadou Diallo.

You're a stopped clock that is smug because at this moment it actually might be 12:00.