This Is How Police Should Respond To A Questionable Shooting

By Bob Owens

In the past several years we’ve sadly witnessed several cities riven by rioting and violence in the wake of officer-involved deaths of minority suspects. In the vast majority of those incidents, the local rumor mill began churning out grossly inaccurate descriptions of the incidents long before law enforcement and the criminal justice system could even begin to respond with facts and evidence. Once those rumors were spread and people believed them, the truth became all but irrelevant.

The shooting of 31-year-old fleeing felon Jocques Scott Clemmons by Nashville, Tennessee police officer Josh Lippert on February 10 had many of the necessary elements to contribute to the sort of mob behavior we’ve seen in recent years.

• A white police officer shot and killed an African-American suspect.
• Witnesses immediately claimed that the officer shot the suspect in the back.
• Physical evidence confirms Clemmons was shot in the back.
• Social media agitators have insisted that this was “murder” from the very beginning.
• Nashville PD has publicly had to amend their account of the incident, potentially casting their credibility into doubt.

It’s a potential recipe for violence… and yet it hasn’t happened. There have been rallies and marches, but they have all been peaceful, and the “usual suspect” anti-police agitators …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms