The devil makes an appearance.

Or at least his advocate.

Sometimes individuals involved in a crime spree, who are aggressively carrying and displaying a knife in a threatening manner, get shot.

1st degree murder should simply not be an option in this situation. I mean it probably has to be in case they get the audio and you can hear him saying, "fuck it. i'm just gonna blast this n****r. i hate his family anyways." If that happened, then sure. 1st degree is entirely appropriate.

But an officer who overreacts to an individual on PCP, acting erratically, committing crimes with a deadly weapon, threatening lives by running in the middle of streets, etc... that's not 1st degee murder. It's manslaughter.

I'm not sure that the ridiculous number of shots changes this to any great degree. Had he been killed by the first shot, it seems to me to already be the same question, and it already seems like manslaughter is the right option. (or whatever allows for like a 15 year sentence). The extra shots, perhaps, add *something* to the charges, including desecration of a corpse at a certain point, but the entire "decision" still took place in a manner of seconds in an incredibly stressful situation with a known dangerous individual carrying and brandishing a weapon (he pulled out the knife just as he got close to the cop cars).

Guess what, black America, just like white America, but at a higher percentage in your case, some of y'all are just stupid, violent morons who do things that get people shot. That's "people", not just black people. In an interview on CNN where that woman journalist, (Camerota perhaps? does she wear above the knee skirts? i hope not. she apparently has actual talent) does an excellent job of confronting the interviewee with police shooting statistics by race, at which point the Black Lives Matter proponent immediately states that he doesn't believe it's primarily a race issue, but first and foremost a neighborhood policing issue. He did well in that moment, but the true test is whether he offers up those inconvenient truths in other contexts or not. Given that he did not do so in this instance, I am 100% sure that he never has, and never will when he's in a room with an audience that is ignorant of such things. That, of course, is the true test of a man.

Be careful how you play this one. I always expect mobs to get the vast majority of things wrong, so it's not like I'm expecting any better from you, but I'm letting you know that we are all always in danger of crying wolf too many times.

Come part way on this. Say "I can see how things could get out of control in this situation. He was acting crazy and pulling out a knife in the middle of a police chase. He was doing things that are very dangerous, and he looked ready to try to make an aggressive move at any moment. He was possibly only seconds away from attacking and being shot regardless. But the way it was handled was just not right. It just can't be allowed."

Ultimately stay focused on the only thing that really matters, because it's the only thing you can really change - police video and the policies regarding such. It's not up to you to decide how anyone will feel about you. Don't spend time on that wasteful exercise as a movement. Your movement is a follow-up to the video recording movement already well underway and the closer it stays to that core message, the more effective it will be in ALL areas it is concerned with.

Unless you are more concerned with personal recognition than actual progress, in which case, blab away and cause as many problems as possible for innocent local residents who are probably already on your side. Go ahead. Do it. Might feel good, right? dooooo iitttt....