There’s a vicious double standard. If you’re an untrained civilian, and you’re approached menacingly by an armed police officer, and you fear for your safety, you’re supposed to remain completely under control, not do anything to make the officer nervous, and not overreact. Especially if said civilian is a black teenager, whose history of treatment by police officers is NOT GOOD, to say the least.
But if you’re a trained, armed police officer, and you fear for your safety, you have license to overreact and shoot anything that moves.
How is it that we expect higher standards of untrained civilians than we do of trained, armed police officers?
