Keith, don't you do it. Did you shoot him? He better not be fucking dead. Okay, we don't know whether he had a gun. But even if he did, you don't have to kill every time somebody does something that makes you nervous. We have to train our police to not be that guy who just empties the club. You know, if I was the police academy, I would say, wait till later in the encounter before you shoot. They seem to be teaching shoot first thing in the encounter. Yeah, and I think the truth here is that we actually have police who have been better trained in parts of the country. And the reality here is that it seems in all of these instances, when we have African-American man after African-American man after African-American man killed by police, what's happening is there's a moment, and in that moment, the police officer just assumes the African-American man is a threat. And we have to get the training that does exist elsewhere to say that African-American man is not necessarily a threat. The (35/45)
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