whenever a cop, or the relative of a cop, or the friend of a cop testifies "the subject attempted to take the weapon for me, a struggle ensued, and during the struggle he was shot," I want you to know with absolute certainty that cop is lying to you. It's a story they teach cops.

If it was a good shooting, and you know it was a good shooting, and that the evidence supports you, you stand and tell the whole story in every detail. If it was a bad shooting, a suspect shooting, one you think won't get through? "A struggle ensued, and he was shot." Every time.

It's a story every cop learns, either from other cops, or a friend, or at the moment when he has shot an innocent or questionably guilty man, and a brother cop tells him how to make it all just go away. He tried to take your gun. You were in fear for your life. You had no choice.

How do I know this? I found out from one of the retired prosecutors who used to, as part of his job, coach cops about what to say on the stand and how to say it.

Oh, you didn't know they do that? Oh yeah. Cops go to SCHOOL to learn how to act as a witness on the stand. How to talk to juries. What to say and how to say it and what to absolutely not say, under any circumstances. What words to use to describe the innocent they killed.

And if they bend the rules a little bit, or twist the circumstances, it's just in the edge cases, right? It's just when they need to, to make sure justice works correctly, which is to say, works the way they want it to, every time. How did you THINK they got 90% conviction rates?