I am led to believe that he had a history of anger issues, resorting in submitting to a culture, a system, of guns, violence, and cop-hating. He might tried to escape using this culture, and eventually decided to appease those as a means of attention, to belong somewhere. This is apparent by the social media posts he'd made prior to the trip to New York. I would claim that he stood there waiting for someone to notice what he'd done.

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I would make this a race issue because not because the color of the killer or the victims, but because of the color of the people who condones this.

hands up and surrounded by religious leaders

shot because he was acting furtive

The distance between the car and the body that was like three times that given in the public announcement by the police, where the latter just happened to be the maximum distance where a cop could start considering that he was in danger (not counting firearms of course) and defend himself with force.

And this is the tip of the iceberg. Black people walking down the street doing anything remotely suspicious to the wrong cop are in danger of losing their lives because their lives aren't respected.

In either case, this has to be where policemen across the country are forced to wear cameras. It has to stop at some point.

Actually being in the city during this nonsense is frustrating. The rich white parts are all blocking up their doors like us blacks are a bunch of rabid animals with no self control.

One of the most prominent pieces of American history were the non-violent African-American movement during its period of segregation. A very similar situation JUST occurred in Florida with the Treyvon Martin case, with minimal damage and a peaceful resolution. The name of the bloody protests are "Hands Up, Don't Shoot". Yet they call the National Guard and declare a state of emergency.

What do us people of color have to do to gain respect in on this fucking planet, make our universal symbol a damn Hello Kitty painting? I can only help but think that if some middle age rich white woman's kid were shot by the police (a very likely scenario), the media wouldn't dare to portray their own people like that. But you know how those negros act when you kill their children. Better tell all those scared petite whites to lock their doors, so that nobody pays attention to the fact that a MOTHER LOST HER SON AND NOBODY IS TO TAKE THE BLAME.

Fuck this. Fuck every single thing about this.