Mixing up your taser with your handgun

[Brian37]

I was listening to MSNBC, and some punditwas asked the question "Is it reasonable to believe that the officer mistook their handgun for a taser", and of course the answer was that no it wasn't reasonable to believe that.

So, despite evidence that they did, in fact, do that, you're going to go with "they murdered the person in cold blood"?  Really?

I hate this trial-by-TV-talking-head (or worse, the twitter-verse).  People make mistakes, especially during stress.  The mind doesn't work the same way as normal.  It becomes hyper-focused on some things, and goes onto auto-pilot for others.

But I get it -- the politically correct thing to say is that police are out to murder black people.

 But it doesn't matter. Her mistake cost someone their lives. If I take my eyes off the road while driving, and pop a curb, and kill someone, I can be charged for that death, even if it was an accident. 

And it isn't the politically correct thing to say, it is a litteral real reality that blacks and other minorities have far more to fear when getting pulled over than whites. I've been pulled over twice for an expired tag. Neither time was I asked to get out of the car, nor did I fear dying.