No justice

I'm going out on a limb here, but to deny that this white police officer killed an unarmed black man is simply turning a blind eye. I am not against the police, so don't even go there. Cops have an extremely difficult, mostly thankless job. They put in long hours away from family, often at the cost of their marriage. They deal with unbelievable stress and disrespect. They don't get paid enough to put up with the bullshit they put up with. But that is not an excuse to kill an unarmed civilian. If an officer is faced with a true threat, then force is necessary. I get it. But if you are a cop and you walk up and say out loud you are going to "kill that mother fucker" and then shoot five bullets into an unarmed man - regardless of what he was doing - you are not only a bad cop, you are a fucking murderer. Then the so-called prosecutor can't prove to a judge in a bench trial, even though there is video evidence of what actually transpired, that this officer not only committed murder but then planted evidence to try to make it look like self defense (even though DNA evidence showed otherwise)...well, how does one respond to that? Not only that, he allegedly used his personal gun - which is against police policy - to kill this man. Was it "first degree" murder as the prosecutor said? No. Was it murder? Yes. Yes, it was. For anyone to say it wasn't is not only infuriating to me, it is sad. It makes me angry and it makes me sad. I don't want to bring my children up in a world that dismisses the lives of anyone, especially because of race, religion, gender, etc. Yet here I am, bringing my children up in a world that dismisses the lives of black people right in their hometown. It is also the same world that tells me I hate cops because I believe black lives matter. They are not mutually exclusive. It's not one or the other. It's just that people need to realize black lives matter, TOO. Just as much as anyone else's life matters.