Watched the video of Dillon Taylor being shot, and wondered anew. Still tend to believe the officer had enough reason to fear to justify the shooting.
But the killing?
Still justified. Because if the shooting was justified, that means the killing was.
Perhaps.
I wonder about the shoot-to-kill approach, supposing that officers are trained to aim at the torso. For one thing, it is the central point and you are less likely to miss. But, I wonder if life is so precious, if they ought to instead be taught to maim rather than kill.
I wondered if there would be wisdom in training officers to evade attack, rather than confronting it. Could officer Cruz and the other officers have slid out of the line of fire while continuing to chase Taylor, ready to shoot but holding off doing so?
Maybe not. But, yes, I weigh the thought.
And, I wonder about the onus of responsibility. We allow it was understandable what officer Brons Cruz did. But, do we allow that it also was understandable what Dillon Taylor did? Did he really reply, "Nah, fool"? If he did, was that an expression of, "You fool, to even be pulling your gun on an innocent man who is doing nothing wrong"? And, when Taylor pulls his hands out of his belt line, isn't that doing what the officer was asking him to do -- to get his hands out?
Calling the incident unfortunate seems too light of wording. It was a tragedy. Dillon Taylor was just walking down the street, and a policeman pulled up, got out of his car, and shot him dead. While I agree it was a justified homicide, this perspective does not goe unnoticed by me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw1DSiJ5hEc
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