Please tell us how this black woman should react to several officers pointing guns at her black husband who suffers from a traumatic brain injury.

I’d pay attention because as a police officer, my job would be to pay attention and be aware of as many of the facts as possible before shooting a citizen I’m paid to protect.

I believe the only detail reported was that he was “disabled.”

I’ve seen videos of police shouting “STOP RESISTING” to people who were not resisting while the police were beating non-resisting people.

Just because the police were saying “Drop the gun” doesn’t automatically mean that the victim had a gun and/or was aiming it at anyone. The family’s lawyer acknowledged that the…

I get it. When they say “drop the gun”, that was the cue for someone to get the drop piece ready.

In addition to turning off the bodycam and then claiming that it didn’t work or that they forgot to turn it on, police appear to be trained to shout “Drop the gun!” repeatedly, regardless of whether the suspect has a gun.

Cops are absolutely known to attack people while yelling “stop resisting” so them yelling “drop the gun” for no reason wouldn’t surprise me.

That’s what I don’t get. Let’s assume for one moment he did have a gun (I don’t believe he did, but I wasn’t there). The man is in his car and not an immediate danger, you have someone who obviously knows him on scene, why would you not have one officer go over and speak with her to see if she knows a way to get him…

OFFICER: Drop the gun.

I call these bigoted little old lady conservatives Librartarians.

“... no wonder people get shot...”

It feels patently ridiculous to suggest that a person drop something they supposedly weren’t holding in the first place and then to use their inattention to that command as a reason to open fire

“He was compliant. A little TOO compliant. Like, suspiciously compliant.”

His conviction got some coverage on Gawker. But Robert Bates is an apples-and-oranges comparison. Shelby was an honest-to-goodness trained police officer. Bases was a civilian that the TPD and Sheriff’s office couldn’t distanced themselves from fast enough. He was a 73 year old insurance CEO who had little or no…

If you’re wondering when the right time to bring up the possibility of sexism being a factor here... It’s never.

I’ve replied in a comment, but I feel like it should be stated again. She wasn’t charged because she was a woman. She isn’t the first law enforcement officer in Oklahoma to be charged when it comes to killing an unarmed black man. Perhaps everybody is forgetting (or unaware of) Robert Bates and his recent conviction.…

So now you can be under suspicion for being too submissive to the police. Huh.

They really need to start administering a courage test before you get your gun and/or badge. If the site of a black man scares you that much, you’re unfit to serve in any public capacity.

“Shelby ordered him again to get his hand out of his pocket. He then pulled his hand away and put his hands up in the air, even though he was not instructed to do so, which Shelby found strange”

That’ll teach him to be unarmed and put his hands in the air.