[Oling_Roachinen]

I think one of the problems is the short attention span, or whatever you want to call it, of the general public.

Blake was shot just over a week ago. It has not been a long time, a lot of this "new" information was even released a couple days after the shooting. But, I think, a lot people, it doesn't appear there is much follow up. This doesn't include people in this thread who are clearly open to conversation and new facts. But these people form their initial opinion, one way or another, and don't ever bother following up on it when new facts are presented.

There's people who think Blake was a pedophile despite complete proof that was not his charge. There's people who will refuse any acknowledgement about the knife despite authorities finding one and saying he admitted to possession (though, I could see an argument that he was on pain-killers from the shooting that maybe he would have also admitted to being an alien from Mars, so I don't want to say that anything is confirmed.)

I think it is perfectly illustrated by the Breonna Taylor killing. It seems like most people still think this was a case of completely wrong house, an incredible mistake by the police.

Nope, it was the exact house they wanted to go to. It was on the warrant. Along with her name. There was no mistake. (Big edit: Sorry, no mistake by the police going to the wrong house, could be a mistake on the warrant and the postal inspector that we certainly can't overlook. But likely won't change the fact that the shooting police will argue that they were "just legally doing their job" when they got shot at and returned fire).

I'm not excusing the killing. Very very much the opposite. But by not acknowledging that this wasn't a "mistake" by the police these people aren't realizing that a person got killed because of some insane laws that allow no-knock warrants to be executed by plain clothes police at night because some overzealous police force is afraid some drugs might be flushed down the toilet by an affiliate of a drug dealer. All in the name of the war on drugs.

Instead a lot of people are at a loss how police can go to the wrong house and shoot a person in her bed and not face murder charges.

If people don't understand why this will possibly go down as a legal killing, these people aren't going to be fighting for the right laws to get changed because right now we can all but guarantee this will happen again in some other jurisdiction, sadly.