Will Stand Your Ground be Unveiled? The Wait to Find Out Now Begins

  Now let us wait to see if a law allowing wickedness will be unveiled for what it is. A good share of the injustice currently roiling America is likely due to this law.
   In Utah, the moment of waiting began yesterday, as it was announced that the investigation into the police killing of Bernardo Palacios is complete, and the case has advanced to the office of Sim Gill.
   Protesters swarmed outside of Gill's district attorney office yesterday, shouting in rage that the officers who killed Palacios must be prosecuted.
   Now, to some it is clear: Palacios should not have been gunned down by police. He was fleeing in fear. He stumbled twice and picked himself up twice. He was not brandishing a weapon, for that requires that you display it in a threatening way. Palacios never pointed it at and never threatened officers with his gun. Something appears to have fallen to the ground on his second stumble. As he picked it up, one of the officers can be heard giving the go-ahead to shoot him, and a barrage of more than 20 shots crack out.
   It is the moment they trained for, so we must wonder if they all just wanted their crack. Test time: Has all that training done any good?
   See, there's a law that gives them the right to shoot, even that prompts them to think it is the right thing to do. Stand Your Ground, they call it, and it says that if you are fearful that if don't shoot, then the person you let live might end up harming someone else.
    So, though it might intrinsically seem wrong to gun down someone who is but fleeing in fear, the gun establishment in America has convinced us that these deaths are justified.
  The words from Proverbs in the Bible seem applicable: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 14:12)
   So it is that we wait. Will D.A. Sim Gill charge the officers with murder? In this case, he might decide Stand Your Ground does not apply. He might decide the officers lives were not in jeopardy. Gill has faced similar cases in the past, however, and has refused to prosecute them. So, there is reason to believe he could let the officers off. But, then again, the backdrop for his decision this time is different. The whole nation is in uproar against such killings.
   And, all across the nation we are now waiting to see if Stand Your Ground will be unveiled. A law that allows officers, as well as all gun owners, to gun down people they say they fear. As we consider police killings such as that of Rayshard Brooks, we now wait to see if Stand Your Ground will finally be condemned, if it will finally be unveiled as the cause of so many of the wrongful police killings (and other killings) in America.
 
(Blog completely overhauled and rewritten 6/18/19)