Wow Jon, that's really amazing. I feel that we are witnessing new levels of deception each month or so. It used to be the idea that there was an epidemic of police killing unarmed African American men. A quick review of of the numbers shows this isn't the case. But America quickly moved beyond that without reviewing the facts.
Your screenshot of someone just brazenly lying about them being armed is beyond the pale. Wait I think I know this one ... Fake News.
The Adam Toledo case really amazes me.
Imagine two people are involved in a car crash. It happens like this: Driver1 is driving on a divided highway (several lanes going only in his direction). He encounters Driver2, who is going the 'wrong way' (common drunk driving situation). Driver1 swerves to the right. Driver2 then swerves to his own left (Driver1's right), so Driver1 swerves to the left--but only just so late, as Driver2 was also just reacting similarly. And so on and so forth until they crash.
Imagine that after the crash, people scratch their heads with amazement, asking the last driver who swerved, "Why did you swerve to the right? When it turns out the other driver was swerving in the same direction by the time you collided?" The driver answers with amazement: "Don't you have any sense of the limitations of a reflex? By each time I realized I'd swerved the wrong way, it was too late - my hand already was moving the steering wheel, I wasn't able to keep up with the most current 'reality' of the situation, there being only fractions of seconds in between".
But that's what many people did in the Adam Toledo case. The kid has a loaded gun, and was evidently just involved in a crime involving that very firearm. Holding the gun, he starts to swing his gun toward the officer. The officer makes a decision to shoot. By the time all is said and done, the kid has his hands up, with no gun in them. Less than one second - even according to a major leftwing media outlet - elapsed in between the time he had the gun, and the time he was shot.
Less than one second. And we're all supposed to pretend that we don't all know what happened? Clearly the officer's brain told his hands he was going to shoot prior to such time as he was capable of the "don't shoot" reflex that may have naturally occurred subsequent to the dropping of the gun.
Have we just gone completely mad?? AB is right, these are times when common sense is in very short supply.
Wouldn't any rational person's response be to direct 3/4 of their outrage at whoever was supposed to be parenting this 12 yr old who was out shooting at people with guns in the middle of the night? I mean that can go either way, but if you're going to pretend to be outraged, at least be rational as to where to direct it..