People are Onions.

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It's a good point. Ideally, we'd like to take as much time as possible to assess situations, to come up with the best and fairest action.

But if someone's life is in danger, we simply don't have that luxury. Not acting becomes an action in itself. I think for people who are reasonably likely to be in such situations as part of their job, they should be given training on being able to make level headed, timely decisions. I expect they probably are already. Whether it's sufficient, I don't know. Removing all of our own biases is almost certainly impossible, we can just do our best to balance things.

If "being black" is considered a factor, then that is obviously a big problem for anyone who thinks that way, who has to make split-second decisions.