The deceased has four children and an arrest warrant for being behind on child support payments.
Rather then get arrested and go to jail, he decided to run.
The problem today is that if you don't comply with the police, you're increasing the probability of leaving in a body-bag. You're making their work even more difficult. Even if they're putting a ******** charge, get a lawyer... fight it, and sue them later.
The problem is the police training, they gave the 12-yr old Tamir Rice with a toy gun all of two seconds before they executing him. A few years ago, he might have gotten "freeze, drop the gun". Now it's shoot first, because cops' lives are the most important.
On the same vein, if it was a white rich dude with a gun... they would de-escalate the situation and talk him down.
If you look at use of force training, admittedly in rare cases it's life or death.
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