A shooting involving a police officer is not a contested decision at professional NFL games, with commentators offering their opinions on the decision made on the field, while viewers at home are shown footage from different angles, and the network’s officiating expert gives his opinion on what might happen during the broadcast.
The NFL’s body camera footage is plentiful and precise, making it very different from the trove of iPhone videos, surveillance recordings and limited body camera footage that spread online after two shootings involving police officers in the Twin Cities.
It is certain that these videos were not captured by professionals, and may distort real events. And in the age of AI manipulation and selective editing, you can’t trust them just to watch them in slow motion on your phone screen.
The two shootings in Minnesota happened within seconds, and neither was planned. Unlike professional sports, cameras were not set up in advance, nor did the audience see everything that law enforcement investigators saw.
Every shooting incident in this context is a tragedy. In the two aforementioned incidents, neither of them was finally settled legally according to the “reasonable force” standard. The available video is inconclusive because it does not include testimony from the officers involved or nearby bystanders. The judicial system is concerned with these procedures, and it will take some time before the ruling is reached.
The point of this article is that in a country addicted to instant replays and decisions made within minutes, the patience needed to decide cases has eroded and even disappeared altogether. No matter how many different angles you study any or both of the shooting incidents, and no matter how many times you witness each of them, you will never know the whole truth. If you have an opinion about either incident that assumes one or both are illegal or unjustified, you are only telling your audience of friends and family that your judgment is untrustworthy, because you are making conclusions based on incomplete evidence.
Of course, shooting incidents involving suspects concern us all. Hasty judgments about the reasonableness of the use of force – including shootings involving police officers – are always irresponsible.
In the end, shooting incidents involving police officers can only be described as tragedies that left deep sadness and pain. It cannot be justified, analyzed, or judged by demagogic cyber investigations from the right or the left. Nor are they scenes from sports matches that we replay as videos for entertainment while sitting on the couch. All that is required now is to wait for the truth.
Source: Fox News
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