Where is the outrage? I have been waiting for a week to hear how horrible and unjustified it was for a police officer to shoot a fleeing, unarmed, suspect in the back. Instead of cries for the officers firing and calls for him to be tried for attempted murder he is hailed as a hero. The suspect was running away and was not armed, well except for the Pop Tarts that he was carrying. A few months ago after another police officer shot a fleeing suspect in the back this was all you heard. We had a thread going here where it multiple people stated that “shooting a fleeing suspect in the back is never justified, it is indefensible, it is murder.” Now it has happened again and there is acceptance that the officer did the right thing. How could this shooting be acceptable while the one in South Carolina is not? Is it because this time both the police officer and the suspect shot are white? Or could it be in this instance we had a more complete picture of how dangerous the suspect was so we agree that the suspect needed to be stopped using any means possible, even if the suspect for the moment was unarmed. Maybe if we been given a more complete picture of what happened in South Carolina instead of just a 10 second video clip of the end of the altercation we would be hailing that officer as a hero as well. I think the officer did the right thing in NY by shooting the suspect and prison escapee while he ran away. I just want to know why there is no outrage from everyone else this time.
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