Cop kills black guy with gun... It was a security-guard who had just stopped the shooter.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/black-security-guard-stops-shooter-bar-gets-gunned-cop-mistook-criminal/

WGN TV reports that 26-year-old armed security guard Jemel Roberson was working at Manny’s Blue Room Bar in Robbins, Illinois on Sunday morning when he was attacked by a gun-wielding man whom witnesses say had been kicked out of the bar earlier in the evening.

Roberson returned fire on the man and managed to subdue him and pin him to the ground.

However, when a Midlothian, Illinois police officer showed up on the scene, he opened fire and killed Roberson because he thought Roberson was the true assailant.

“Everybody was screaming out, ‘he was a security guard,’ and they basically saw a black man with a gun and killed him,” witness Adam Harris tells WGN TV.

[SHRED]

1. Sickening.

[Basement Beat]

2. I just can't properly express my words for this damn country...

this is just beyond sickening and tiring.

[workinclasszero]

3. OMG

Black males have a target on them from the day they are born in this country.

Shoot to kill...ask questions later if ever.

I feel so sorry for his family.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. This is what makes the good guy with a gun a myth.

One bad guy with a gun and three or four good guys with guns.

Bad guy starts shooting, the good guys pull theirs......and how do the good guys know who is who?

[mnhtnbb]

6. Precisely right. The cops shoot first and ask questions later.

[RainCaster]

11. Police are held to a different standard of "intent" when it comes to shooting people

They can shoot anyone anywhere and get away with it because the legal standard is that the prosecution must show "malice of forethought" to make responsibility stick. Knowing that, they do shoot first.

[UCmeNdc]

5. So Sad! Trump's 'Merica!

[Basement Beat]

7. Let's wait to see how long the NRA and "president"...

offer their words on this senseless murder.

[EffieBlack]

8. You can only be a "good guy with a gun" if you're white. A black guy with a gun is a "thug"

[TwistOneUp]

9. Same as during Katrina

The news showed white people "collecting supplies" from an unmanned store during the hurricane.
The news showed black people "looting" the same store. Same conditions, unmanned, but the blacks were "looting" while the whites were "collecting".

This shit is endemic, and must be stopped. Where are the news editors and their management?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. So...when they say that arming all citizens will put an end to senseless gunshootings...

Nope. I don't see any way to finish that sentence to make any sense out of this.

[Bettie]

14. Yeah, because they don't actually mean

arming all citizens, just the white, male ones.

[inwiththenew]

12. Police have been given carte blanche to shoot whoever they want

Bad guy with gun, good guy with gun, guy with no gun. Doesn't matter because the bar for an officer being able to justify a shooting is so low and ant could hurdle it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Fucking keystone cops

[Crunchy Frog]

15. It takes a good guy with a gun to stop another good guy with a gun.