Mississippi cop manages to understand the problem while still completely missing the point.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/miss-pol...-shoppers/
So far, so good. But then:
So, black guy leaning on a toy gun and talking on the phone? Shot on sight.
Two white guys loading a real shotgun? Can't touch them.
You're close, Chief. But you have a ways to go.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/miss-pol...-shoppers/
Quote:Miss. police: Open carry laws kept us from arresting shotgun-toting man who terrorized Walmart shoppers
Quote:The police chief of Gulfport, Mississippi, expressed his frustration with his state’s open carry laws after a man strolling through a Walmart Sunday night menaced shoppers by loading and racking shells into his shotgun, causing police to dispatch a SWAT team and evacuate the store
So far, so good. But then:
Quote:Without mentioning it, the police chief may have been alluding to the shooting of John Crawford in an Ohio Walmart last August, after police gunned the African-American man down while he held a toy rifle.
Asked whether he believed police overreacted to the situation, the police chief said absolutely not.
So, black guy leaning on a toy gun and talking on the phone? Shot on sight.
Two white guys loading a real shotgun? Can't touch them.
You're close, Chief. But you have a ways to go.