Does anyone else think that sometimes the internal investigations following these incidents are deliberately dragged out in the hopes that tempers will cool before the facts are presented? It's like we're trained to sit back saying "Well, we can't know what really happened there yet. Let's not rush to judgment. I mean, yeah he was an unarmed teen in shorts and flip flops and every witness said he had his hands in the air, but the officer may have felt, I dunno, like he was a threat in some way we just don't understand yet, and the investigation will probably show how the shooting was justified, can't we all calm down and wait and see?"
And then, by the time the investigation fails to show justification and the killer cop is slapped on the wrist, it will all be old news. We'll be too busy awaiting the results of the next case of police brutality to get angry about it.
And then, by the time the investigation fails to show justification and the killer cop is slapped on the wrist, it will all be old news. We'll be too busy awaiting the results of the next case of police brutality to get angry about it.