A Teen Was Having Car Trouble. A Sheriff’s Deputy Shot and Killed Him.

There has to be more to this story.

“In potentially dangerous situations, deputies are often forced to make split-second decisions,” Staley said. “Second-guessing those decisions, especially when the facts are still unclear, is dangerous and unfair.”

That is the attitude that has to stop. I can't think of a better time to ask questions about someone's actions than when someone else is killed by them. Unfair to the officer? Someone's dead at their hand. Many times when I hear about not questioning "split second decisions" it's used as a justification for a police officer to kill a member of the public when they are scared. That's just the wrong answer. Of course we should second guess these decisions, particularly when these "split second decisions" keep on ending up with dead members of the public.

To be clear, I think we need the facts. It is the "second guessing" justification that has to stop. It's basically saying we can do what we want and the public doesn't have the right to question us.

It's amazing how some always want to give cops who murder innocent people the benefit of the doubt.

While you're on this, go look up Daniel Shaver. Tell me there's "more to the story" there too. Smh.