So basically all the cops who use "it looked like a gun" to justify shooting a black person holding a mobile phone can now say "mobile phones can be disguised guns better safe than sorry"? 

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though recent incident was because it was dark so wldn't see anyways. problem was the metallic case that reflected the flashlight 'like a gun' in the dark, and the cops said "show me your hands" rather then hands up, so hands were pointed at the rookies as suspect strode forward
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I'm sure every single datapoint can be rationalized, in many cases maybe even quite sincerely. That's kind of my point though, this sort of thing makes those post-hoc rationalizations harder to dismiss. Meanwhile the police keeps executing black people.
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