If a white lady answered the door, would she have been killed? This isn't a rhetorical question. Though I think we may be dealing with probabilities and factors here, I'd like to hear your answer.
Next question is why the unnecessary killing? I mean, taking out a gun is one thing. Actually shooting to kill someone is something else.
Also, what was up with the pacing back and forth rather than applying emergency first aid? Is it because he was running away into the apartment when she shot him and thus the door closed after him? The police tend to shoot people, minorities included, when the victims are running away and we've seen this before. Do you think that is reasonable?
I have no statistics, but we've come across a lot of stories involving minorities running away and/or being shot in the back, even if unarmed.
Don, I'd like to apologise if earlier I overstated my case (or was unnecessarily rude in doing so) that the race issue should not be speculated about. At the time, I was mostly objecting to the possible implication that it was necessarily a factor, or much of a factor, in this case and I was disinclined to go down that route (pending further information or evidence). On reflection, there is nothing wrong in speculating about it, with caveats.
I do of course agree with the general statements about perceived stereotypes, including black people often more or less automatically being seen, perhaps especially by whites, as more likely to be dangerous. And that such perceptions can sometimes be subtle, for the perceiver, and exist on a spectrum as regards the population.
