Sorry if I instantly supposed you were more radical than that, I tend to be very pessimistic about this kind of stuff
At the same time, I feel that way because I can understand that the non-violent methods can be very slow to change things, which can push people, especially youngsters, to want to make it happen quicker with more stringent measures that they feel are justified, get my drift?
Funny thing is I also share this impatience, but on different topics; on most of police related stuff in the world, I see it as being a part of the human condition: policemen arent robots, mistakes happens, bad people can get in, the system need to be checked everyday. Which is a very mild and barely comprehensible stance to some that think THE SYSTEM IS ENTIRELY CORRUPTED
Going back on the topic we had on hands:
People 100% compliant with police instructions getting shot is not helping the situation.
If you believe the police version (I know, madness!), this is just a poor way to describe the situation since the guy being 100% compliant was not targeted and the police apologised to him. Some situations are simply unfortunate. So to bring up this as a part of a representative police problem is like the "hands up, dont shoot!" reddit stupidity to me. It is simply the way things happened as part of a confused situation where callers told the cops that someone had a gun and threatened someone's life with it, + unaccuracy of a police officer. The black guy could have caught the bullet in the head, or the autist himself, and the situation wouldnt have changed one bit, it would be just even less fortunate.