Yes I agree. The going narrative was that he wasn't armed and carrying a book. The realty is that he was armed and the gun he was holding was recovered at the scene.
The whole point of my post was centered around exactly what you said, a complete distrust and lack of respect for authority.
I think there are reasons for that though. Not the "complete" part, but definitely the rest of it.
There are a number of cases of police doing the wrong thing and then making up charges or planting evidence. There are also a great number of cases of justified shootings.
The guy in SC running because he owed child support. The cops shot him and killed him then tried to say he had a gun.
There was a case in WV where a cop pulled a gun on some lady's dog, she jumped between him and the dog and then got arrested for assaulting the officer or something. Whatever it was, there was video and she didn't do anything the cops said she did.
There was one recently where a guy was holding up a sign warning of a DUI checkpoint or speed trap or something. So the cops came up, knocked a camera out of his hands, took it from him ... but it was still running and recording and they recorded themselves talking about what they could come up with to charge him with even though he had violated no crimes.
Yes, there are also cases in which there is a national outcry and then we have to say "whoops" we didn't have all the facts, the cops were actually OK. And of course the incidents where cops are being killed just because they are cops, but some cop did something bad someplace else.
There needs to be a serious national discussion about all of this. We need to stop jumping in our foxholes and picking sides and really looking at this. There are a number of incidents perpetrated by police that simply should have never happened, we can't deflect and say "look at Michael Brown" and pretend that every incident is going to play out that way.
There is definitely a problem and it's making everything more dangerous for every single one of us.
