Shaun KingVerified account

This makes me so mad I feel like my head might explode.

I feel you Nancy. We’re talking about a young man’s life. When they let killers get away with murder they tend to keep doing it. I pray for justice.

It’s getting to the point a good family man can’t break into cars and steal in his own neighborhood then flee from the po-po without risking life and limb. What IS our world coming to?

He should have been arrested if that’s true, not killed

Agreed. I’m on the side of BLM & Shaun is admirable. But I don’t understand the strategy of making a hero out of a criminal resisting arrest. The ACLU carefully chose among 100s of resistors of segregation before selecting Rosa Parks, a (good looking) model citizen.

This man was already misjudged by the cops that murdered him. You don’t need to be playing devil’s advocate on their behalf because you don’t think he tests well with focus groups.

Strategy is important. For those who want to make real progress, like Shaun, rather than just wax impotent on Twitter. And ignoring that Stephon was engaged in a crime and fleeing police is BAD STRATEGY.

Bad strategy is shooting an unarmed person who had been said to allegedly commit a non violent crime! @baker_edu Your thought process is part of the problem.

I suppose, by his actions, it would have been better that the officers waited until at least 1 officer was shot

Shot with what? The gun that they wish they planted on this man?

This why criminal justice reform starts at the local level, people complained Obama didn’t do enough, but it was about the local law enforcement and local officials we put in office. #BLM #TheResistance

@KamalaHarris @CoryBooker @BernieSanders DA's can't be asked to evaluate these types of cases. Athletes quietly protest because of outcomes like this and get their careers destroyed. Politicians need fix these wrongs.

There are no charges because there is a difference between a police officer doing something criminal and making a mistake / misjudging a situation (e.g. thinking a person had a gun when they didn't).

20 shots isnt "oops, I thought maybe I saw a weapon." Its entering a situation with a specific mindset already.

If I thought a person had a gun and was going to shoot me I would not shoot once and wait to see if I hit them, or wait to see if they would try and kill me back. And cops don't either, cause it increases the chance they get killed.

As a officer of the law...you have to GET IT RIGHT!!! You have to be right. Life is too precious for OOOppppsss “IF I THOUGHT” You have to KNOW and be RIGHT. All cops who have the mindset that you just express should be retrained or removed from the force. #NoRoomForMistakes

I do get what you are saying and I wish it was that easy, but my basic point is that you can't just put a cop in jail for misjudging a situation. Of course, everything possible should be done to minimize the misjudgments.

I totally understand brother. The problem - this person wasn’t a cop. How would he situation be handled? The badge alone changes how the mistake is handled. It breeds the 2 law theory. Well really 3. 1 for the rich, 1 for law enforcers, and 1 for everyone else.