Everyone thats commenting that these people shouldn't have been shot are any of you in law enforcement or going to be? It's honestly really easy to criticize either side here and people can blame the cop all they want but until you're in that situation you really don't have a say of "what should have happened" including myself. An example would be here locally in the past months. One guy got shot in a hotel room because they were faced with a "dangerous situation" well who actually knew it was dangerous? Only the officers present and we haven't implicated the body cameras yet so we don't know what actually happened. I know for this case they tried to taze him first but that didn't work but then there was enough that they could have subdued him but then again, I wasn't there and don't know what I would do in that situation. Then a second incident in downtown, a man pulled out a metal pipe and the police shot him, could they have tazed him first? (not sure if they tried or just shot him right away) possibly but they decided to shoot him right away.
Most of the videos show one side and its bias side towards the victims and they shouldn't deserve what they got but then there are also some bad cops out there that go way too far. When race gets involved #### just hits the fan and people automatically start making societal norm judgements of why they got shot. Watching videos online an individual can only get so much knowledge from it and decide what happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-officer.html
In this video here there's nothing that shows the officer was doing anything wrong except doing his job. These are the few tragic/rare cases that do happen and is unfortunate. I know in the States the police are really bad and abuse their power, not all but some. I know luckily in Calgary here the CPS is pretty good. If you show them the respect that they deserve they will also do the same. Anyone can disagree with me all they want I'm okay with that but I'm just saying its really hard to judge what the actions of officers should be until you're in that situation. I can easily say "OH I would have went up to the victim and subdued him with hand to hand combat" instead of shooting him but in reality who knows what the outcome could be thats why I believe the process for becoming an officer should be more strict and thorough. If anyone has looked at applying for the CPS its honestly pretty tough, but I believe it should be harder to get in so we don't have any incidents happen like those of in the states.