They were kids, yes. Kids with a car, committing crimes, with the ability to present a deadly threat. You think those cops, human beings with families who want to go home at the end of shift, consider a kid behind the wheel of a car trying to run them over any less of a threat than an adult? In the dark, in a car,…

I keep hearing these takes, and I just don’t get it. Thieves stole shit that wasn’t theirs. When the cops tried to apprehend them so they could be held accountable for their crime, rather than comply with lawful orders, they did some dumb shit that got them shot at. A moving vehicle is 100% a deadly weapon if used in…

This is a common school of thought, and it could not be more ignorant. I’m a cop. I’m also a husband and father of four. I want to go home to them at the end of every shift. And you would have me wait for someone to fire a bullet at me before I can discharge my firearm? The first order we give to an armed suspect is…

There is a statistically much more realistic chance you could be hit by a car while crossing the street looking down at your phone, too, but that would have very little to do with your race.