Police shooting: Death for doing the right thing
Regarding the Black man who was shot last weekend in Atlanta: He was not doing anything worth dying for!
In fact, he was doing the smart thing: sleeping off a night of drinking instead of driving drunk. He could have decided to keep driving home and might have killed someone on his way.
Why use a kill shot on this particular man? After the Taser didn’t work on him, why not try something different, or if guns were truly necessary, why not a non-kill shot?
Killing someone for sleeping off a night of too much drinking or because you think he might be a person who passed a fake $20 dollar bill (ala George Floyd) is absurd.
Killing people of color for little or no reason is simply a racist slaughter.
Veda Baldwin, Tacoma
This story was originally published June 24, 2020 at 8:08 AM with the headline "Police shooting: Death for doing the right thing."