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Of course a person's record is important during a police contact. How stupid can folks be to think that knowing how dangerous a person can be is not essential in a police officer's confrontation. Knowing that a suspect has a felony record of violence helps an officer be alert. If you think that a police officer gets paid enough to get shot and maybe killed, you are not living in reality. Yes, a police officer may shoot someone in the back in certain dangerous circumstances. If a person is suspected (reasonably) of reaching for a deadly weapon, a police officer is acting in self defense when he shoots to stop the suspect. It is very easy for ignorant, protected citizens to Monday morning quarterback a police shooting. They were not there and the videos you see are only one dimensional so to speak. You only see what someone wishes you to see. A perfect example is the Floyd case. No one saw the other video where he was arrested, cuffed and put into the police car by two officers, and a minute later when they were dealing with the other two subjects, he escaped out of the patrol car. Then he began to resist arrest and capture. That puts more perspective on his being restrained. I am not saying whether or not the restrain was done properly, but it is not unusual for officers to get a violent person down on the ground and place a knee on them, to regain control.
In this case, even with children in the car, this guy might have been reaching for a gun. It would not be the first time that a dirtbag put children in harms way.
I do not see any evidence yet that this is a race based incident. I see only (so far) a cut and dry, out of control disturbance that instead of the subject submitting to instructions by the police, he decided to make a stupid choice and reach into the car for some reason or another. The police assumed it was for nefarious reasons and used deadly force to stop him. If the police had hesitated and IF the subject reached for a gun and shot the officer or officers, then we probably would not be having this conversation. Just another unfortunate incident where a Cop got killed.
Sorry if I do not have any sympathy for persons that persist with stupid actions. Maybe they should make a subset of the Darwin awards for people that get themselves killed STUPIDLY because of their actions with the police.