re: President of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance Shot Dead By Cop After Refusing To Drop Knife

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I do like the way you are trying to express your concerns.

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Just to be clear, most of my concerns are in the abstract. I think there are issues of governmental overreach, including when it comes to law enforcement, but I rarely find myself on the side condemning a police-involved shooting.

Here, I have no desire to see the decisions of the police officers put up for trial-by-public opinion. They will be, but it's not my goal, and my personal conclusion is that the shooting was justified. But obviously I think this board can handle a topic that calls police shootings into some degree of question without condemning cops. In contrast, I wouldn't try and pull that off in a college classroom, where I imagine a lot more people would harbor anti-police bias and see the discussion only through that lens.