Defend their neighbors? Yes. That makes sense. Protect pedophiles, fraudsters, spouse abusers, drunk drivers that are here illegally, from seeing an immigration judge.

Huh. That makes total sense.

God knows we don't want those here illegally to have to see a judge.

45. Wait. You aren't really going to mention the administrations framing of the incident as self defense ... ... the next day ... .. when the mayor, the police chief, and then Governor were calling it "murder" barely an hour after the shooting??

Please.

BOTH sides are wrong. BOTH sides should have said "we are concerned about the incident that took place. We look forward to a full and thorough accounting of what happened through the upcoming investigation."

But they didn't. The Minneapolis team was immediately fanning the flames of hatred and anger by trying to control the narrative with their claims of "murder" before the body of Ms. Good was even cold.

The administration had to fight that narrative with their own.

It was a repulsive display of vulgarity and ugliness on the part of then Minneapolis leaders.

But of course you completely left that part out.

It's sad how narrow minded you are. I'm not on a side. I didn't vote for Trump in ANY of the 3 elections he ran in.

But I do know use of force and police policy and procedure better than 99.9% of the population.

What happened was almost certainly legally justified. That isn't to say the "right" thing to do. Those two things are completely unrelated even though they often go hand in hand.

Yeah you'd be surprised. I'm all for universal healthcare, higher minimum wage, taxing the crap out of billionaires, and a whole slew of things that are the antithesis to Trump and his policies

But that doesn't prevent me from being objective in my evaluation of each issue as it is. It doesn't have to be viewed through a partisan lens.

The facts are the facts. She hit him, and he very likely with full legal authority shot her. We'll see what the investigation uncovers and discloses, but case law, and policy and procedure are legally on the officers side.

If you could remove everything political out of the overall situation, you'd probably see that. It's sad that you can't.

But again ... legal authority to do something has absolutely no relationship to the morally right action. I won't say whether what happened was right ... not until all the facts are in ... but on its face the evidence indicates it was legally justified.