Hooo-boy.....
The sheriff of Nelson County, Kentucky expressed relief that a 25-year-old man shot by one of his deputies was white during a press conference on Monday, suggesting that black protesters would become violent because they were misinformed by the media.
Play the jeopardy theme and let that soak in for a moment.
Then over the Great Orange Thing
“We are glad that he is white, and we shouldn’t have to be worried about that,” Mattingly said. “We do not want any backlash or violence in this community because people have been misinformed.”
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“The media has not done a very good job of informing the public, and the public is not educated on how the system actually works,” he said. “We don’t want those type of troubles in our community.”
He is saying he is glad the shooting victim - who does seem to have gone out of his way to incur wrath, to be fair - is white because they don't want protests and people being all crabby about police brutality.
And the 'victim' is alive, in serious condition, but still alive after hitting to police cars, causing 1 of them to explode, and then is described as trying "to disarm" an officer who proceeded to shoot the guy.
I am all for pointing out and ending police brutality and such but this incident has other issues, clearly.
A black man in this country at this time would not have a high probability of surviving this particular kind of incident: where it seems somewhat unlikely the police are totally lying about things.
I suppose they could be but it is some good story-telling if it is. If true, it's outrageous. The guy got what he got fair and square, went out of his way to get it and the cops there showed it was possible to manage the situation without a hail of gunfire or indiscriminate killing.
Cops ARE in their right to use whatever force needed when you have ANYBODY going ape-shit as this guy seems to have: the fact that they have already killed over 400 people with a number of outrageous shootings is why people are up in arms, protesting and 'causing the kind of scenes' the ol Kentucky sheriff doesn't want to be "worried" about.
Again, the police HAVE to take responsibility for their actions and they don't.
Then, when they have a real and true crisis, they feel the need to circle the wagons and be all defensive, probably needlessly.
Get your act together, fuzz.