It's a very low-crime area north of Ohio State.

feels justified in being completely wrong and blowing away an innocent man.

It's baked into the system. Prosecutors and police will almost NEVER admit to wrongdoing even if convicted.

Rot in jail, shitheap...

May not be true in this case but in many.

that he acted in accordance with his training.
They are taught from their first day at “The Academy” that there is nothing more important than officer safety, that everyone they encounter is a threat, and an “us vs. them” mindset.

The problem is the training —- which they steadfastly refuse to change.

It has many faces, and needs more than a single change.

Training is certainly a big one.

But I would put at the top of the list the way children, especially but not limited to boys, are taught to recognize masculinity in America. May I quote John Pavlovitz? "Parents, if you don't want you sons to be lonely, stop raising them to be misogynistic assholes."

If we could manage to deal with that, then dealing with the proliferation of guns nationwide, the ease of obtaining a gun, including without qualifying under existing laws, the issue of regulating guns, the issue of enforcing regulation, and other issues related to people mentally associating guns with masculinity.