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...Yet officers talked to Payton Gendron, convinced him to put down his weapon and arrested him without firing a single shot. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia that day cited their training and called it "a tremendous act of bravery."

In a country where Black people have been killed in encounters with police over minor traffic infractions, or no infractions at all, though, it's raised the question: Where is that training, that determined following of protocol, when it comes to them?

"It's important to emphasize this is not about why aren't police killing white supremacist terrorists," said Qasim Rashid, a human rights lawyer and satellite radio host who was among those on social media making posts about the subject. "It's why can't that same restraint and control be applied to a situation involving an unarmed Black person?"...