The BART cop has got to do time...

[catnhatnh]

...because only that can save him.

I've watched the video and what I see is a total fuck-up...this guy pulls the gun and shoots without conscious thought or perception of threat. As in I honestly believe it was a straight-up fuck-up....what he THOUGHT he was doing escapes me, whether he thought he was holding a taser or squeezed the trigger by mistake, everything I've seen convinces me he was appalled by his own actions...His resignation is also convincing-we will see no justification here.

That said he ended a life. And walking away would be no favor to him. We each live with our Karma and his is dark and he needs to expiate his act. I think that he better than most knows this. Not that he would embrace incarceration, but that deep down where the corn binds, he NEEDS punishment to live the rest of his life as a man...

I have an uncle who killed a friend in a "gun accident". He walked away "free" except it ruined his life. A prison term he could have survived but the lack of atonement was corrosive...

Put the guy in jail...make the term like that given for killing someone with a car drunk...it works out the same...murder without malice aforethought....make it minimum security and with protection from the population.

It is his only path to redemption.