Nearly a year ago, in Northern Virginia, a young man named Aaron Brown was shot and killed by a police officer. He was a close friend of my brother, and at the time, I wrote a lot of stuff about it. It was a bad scene all around, with many mistakes made.
Recently, the washington post reported that the wheels of justice have twitched another notch forward. The officer has been suspended from duty, and the police chief has clarified the rules of engagement under which an officer may place themselves in harms way, and when they may open fire on a moving vehicle. It seems like an ever so slight acknowledgment that there is serious circular reasoning going on when the justification for shooting was “imminent danger to the officer,” who had just stepped out in front of a moving jeep.
Still, this stirred up all those year-old feelings again.
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