[Nedusa]

As I have said earlier in this thread and the other related thread these incidents will continue to happen in the US due to the simple fact that the place is awash with guns and the Police shoot first and ask questions later out of a sense of survival.

The US authorities cannot realistically prosecute or indict these Police officers no matter how absurd the circumstances of their actions ie shooting an innocent youngster black or white or an elderly person or even a disabled person. Because the authorities know if they start sending Police officers to prison where they will most certainly struggle to survive they will lose most of their law enforcement resources.

And then you will have urban Anarchy with the National Guard coming in and trying to police these problem areas with a massive increase in the loss of life.

Even if the authorities try and set the procedures for officers to use their guns , in the heat of the moment untrained or inexperienced officers will always shoot first if they feel threatened.

I do not think this is a racist problem as unpalatable as it sounds a higher proportion blacks in the US are in the category where they confront police than their non black counterparts.

So these incidents of killing unarmed youngsters are more likely to be black youngsters than white youngsters. But that's another debate.

I honestly think the Gun lobby in the US needs to be tackled along with the whole issue of uncontrolled gun ownership. Only when you have taken half a BILLION guns off the streets in the US we might have a chance to address these unfortunate shootings.




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