Black lives matter. Nobody should be getting shot.

But if you run up behind a police officer as he's chasing a suspect, and you're carrying a gun, you *will* and *should* be shot; it's absolutely reasonable for any officer to think "suspect running at me with a gun" is a danger https://twitter.com/MicheleDHall/status/1301570616030638080
This is an 18 year old life lost, and that's horrible. And we can talk about the systemic stuff - did the police need to be there in the first place? How does that kid end up there? I don't know enough to have a view. But the shooting itself was not wrongful.
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