plawolf
Lieutenant General
Correction, they only do that to non-whites. There are innumerable examples of Caucasians armed and clearly acting aggressively while police stood back and did what you expect police to do - do everything they can not to shoot when there was no immediate threat to themselves or others. Indeed, there are many examples where white suspects were actively trying to attack police and still there is massive hesitation in shooting them.
Case in point. Now can anyone imagine them showing such restraint if the attacker was black?
This is reinforced by the swift justice meted out to any American police officers who shoot and kill Caucasians without bulletproof justification. You just need to contrast the killing of Justine Damond, the white women who was shot and killed after calling police about a possible rape she overheard.
Compare that to any number of just as egregious, if not more so, cases where ethnic minority civilians are fatally shot by American police under complete indefensible circumstances, yet the police department still closes ranks around them and I challenge people to say there isn’t institutionalised racism of the most blatant kind at play.
