Apparently shooting a white girl trying to stab to death a black girl would have been a good shooting. However, a white cop shooting a black girl who was trying to stab to death another black girl was just a cop looking to fill his hunting tag for black women.
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A jury refused to indict the officer who shot the black girl who was in the process of stabbing another black girl. Jonathan Turley notes the leftwing media once again sprang into action to defame this man.
I wrote earlier that I believed that the shooting was justified under departmental rules and legal precedent. Nevertheless, the shooting of the teenager was decried as murder in the media. "The View" co-host Joy Behar insisted that, when the officer saw Bryant moving to stab another girl, he should have shot in the air. The grand jury clearly disagreed and refused to indict Officer Nicholas Reardon.
At the time of the shooting, various media outlets like NPR posted misleading accounts of the shooting, which fueled anger in the city. (NPR later corrected its original account):
The Daily Beast also ran misleading coverage, including a quote from "local Columbus activist K.C. Taynor of Exodus Nation" that "the latest police killing made it impossible to celebrate the Chauvin verdict. It's another murder. They're animals. They treat us like animals."
Such hair-triggered coverage has become the norm where public anger is fueled by false accounts or claims by media, including the Rittenhouse case and Sandmann controversy where the subjects later sued the media.
As we previously discussed, politicians and commentators often have a distorted view of the standard and realities in these cases. President Biden has long maintained that police officers should shoot armed suspects in the leg. However, there is a reason why police manuals do not say "aim for the leg" or "try to shoot the weapon out of the suspect's hand." It is called "imminent harm," the standard governing all police shootings. The fact that many of us describe such shootings as "justified" is not to belittle these tragedies but to recognize the underlying exigencies that control the use of lethal force.