So the Alabama police killed a 'good' guy with a gun

[malaise]

and the gunman is still at large. Ah well! So much for that theory.

[HipChick]

1. "Good" guy who was black..

Not Allowed..

[malaise]

2. Tut tut child

There are no good black guys with or without guns and we all look alike so there.

[guillaumeb]

5. Ouch.

The Second Amendment was designed to allow white males of property to carry guns in order to protect themselves from their slaves.

And the US police forces started as slave patrols.

So there are those facts as well. A black person with a gun is perceived as a threat.

[malaise]

6. Precisely

[bitterross]

12. Yep. You got it right. Carrying a gun is a privilege for Whites.

It is clear there can be no such thing as a good guy with a gun if that person is African American.

[guillaumeb]

13. Agreed.

And the NRA is always silent when the good man with a gun is non-white.

[Soleta]

3. This story is more an example of what's wrong with police,

than an example of what's wrong with armed non-police.


Too many police believe in the "better safe than sorry" principle when it comes to deadly force. It is a bankrupt philosophy for people who signed up to be 'heroes' to take as a guiding principle.

[Kaleva]

7. The guy may have died following the "better safe then sorry" principle

When out in public, one doesn't pull a gun unless there is 100 % certainty that the next action will be pulling the trigger. Guy knew shit was going down so he thought it best to be safe and draw the gun in case he needed it. That killed him.

Of course I'm just guessing as to what the actual events were.

Bottom line is that one doesn't draw a gun because there may be police or other good guys with a gun who mistake you for a bad guy with a gun.

[brush]

11. The cops lied about his killing at first. Can't really believe them now saying he had a gun.

[pecosbob]

4. The article I read yesterday had the police claiming he was involved.

It sounded like a lie when I read it.

[exboyfil]

8. The Washington Post article on this is poorly written

Here is the quote.

About an hour before the shooting, Bradford posted a photo of himself on Facebook, showing him posing in a doorway in the shredded jeans and T-shirt in which he would die. Digital scribbles on the photo obscure his left hand, in which he appears to be holding something.

I read it to mean he said he would die in these clothes. That is not what the Facebook picture shows. It does show him almost surely holding a gun. My 74 year old mom has the same type of picture on Facebook. I advised her against it, but you know how the NRA types love these types of pictures unless perhaps it is a black man holding the gun. Then he is a thug.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/24/police-said-they-killed-mall-shooter-now-they-say-they-might-have-shot-wrong-man/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7ead5381b47d

[Kaleva]

9. Stay away from people like this: "several shoppers were seen with their guns drawn."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/24/police-said-they-killed-mall-shooter-now-they-say-they-might-have-shot-wrong-man/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb58780763f3

[malaise]

10. I pass

You won't see me in Alabama

[oberliner]

14. Family of man killed by officer in Alabama mall shooting hires civil rights attorney

HOOVER, Ala. — The family of a man who was fatally shot by a police officer at mall in Hoover, Alabama has retained a national civil rights attorney, a press release confirms.

Family members have hired Benjamin Crump to represent them in 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.'s Thanksgiving night shooting death. Crump represented Trayvon Martin's family in the 2012 to 2013 George Zimmerman case.

https://abc3340.com/news/local/family-of-man-killed-by-officer-in-alabama-mall-shooting-hires-civil-rights-attorney