http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/09/1356607/-Montana-officer-Grant-Morrison-shoots-and-kills-his-second-unarmed-man-No-charges-in-either-case?detail=email
Without a doubt, being a police officer is often a dangerous career path. According to the New York Times, 50 police officers in the United States were shot and killed in 2014 while on duty.
While the number of citizens shot and killed by police in 2014, according to Reason, is 1,029, which is 20 times the number of police officers killed and the highest on record for our nation, any reasonable person will admit that the job of an officer can be dangerous and often thankless.
When an officer pulls over a car for a moving violation, they have no idea if the passengers in that car are going to be school teachers, Girl Scouts, or some dudes making a drug run. With that said, Grant Morrison, a police officer in Montana, clearly has an unacceptable and unreasonable level of fear when he pulls people over.
Two times, in the past two years, Morrison has pulled over unarmed, nonviolent citizens and, in a fit of fear, shot them both—the most recent resulting in a brutal and unnecessary death. Below the fold you will find the videos of those incidents and the nearly unbelievable news stories detailing how he's been cleared of wrongdoing in both shootings.
If what he did isn't wrong, we have a problem.
there is no doubt a problem and no doubt it is in the minds of those who commit these tragedies, i cant't get the teen from Ferguson out of my mind he realizes the fact that the fear is inbred and all the training and cameras won't solve that problem, once the cameras are up and running we will start seeing failures to capture the incidents that will be in question.
what drives them is fear and contempt i wonder if more for the officer than the person he encounters if so than overcoming that fear is guaranteed if that fear or perceived threat were dead. think about it also think about if juries and DA's and fellow cops weren't so eager to exonerate and held those cops accountable i do believe a lot less dead Black people would fill our news cycles and justice or just them systems.
