msharmony, it is standard operating procedure in the USA for law officers to be immediately suspended from duty after they have used lethal force.
During the suspensions, the use of lethal force is investigated to determine whether or not it was necessary.
In short, police officers are held accountable for their use of lethal force.
However, being held accountable doesn't mean that law officers should be punished when the use of lethal force was necessary.
the appearance of accountability is not the same as accountability
suspension with pay (vacation) before someone 'officially' says it was acceptable
is not acountabilty when someone was only reaching for a wallet, or failing to go limp enough,,etc,,etc,,,etc,,,
the odds of the force being 'necessary', seems to happen far more often than not
you are,of course,intimately acquainted with the Facts of the Cases?
as intimately acquainted as anyone with an opinion of anything in this forum
and of the ones that I have read about
and of the ones that I have seen with my own eyes since body cams have been in force
and of the HISTORY of the treatment of minorities in the system
and of the experiences of myself and other loved ones by the police'
COLLECTIVELY ,, that makes me 'intimately' acquainted enough
