Tonight I discovered something totally horrific, but totally true.

[Stuart G]

Warning: very upsetting current news about shootings in U.S.A.

...I was doing some research on a story where I put up a video I found on You Tube of a Tennessee sheriff talking to one of his deputes about a reckless driver. In the end, there is a shooting and a suspect is killed. That one is now up in "Videos and Multimedia" forum. (that single video is not what this is about)

In doing this research, I went to You Tube..and asked the site to find this ..Body Cam police shootings. I even put in word Tennessee. I thought I would find it immediately

The search came up with dozens of police shootings where suspects are killed. A few of the links were for shootings where police are injured, shot or killed. But most are videos of the actually shootings of suspects. All over the country..Say..in the last 10 years..Very few showed gunfights between the officers and suspects. I could only take looking at the descriptions of maybe 20 of these. Most seemed to be from different events at different times and places. I recall that Carolina cop who shot that man running away. Everyone has seen it.
The officer has been tried and I convicted I think. That video was up here at Democratic Underground....That one was North Charleston, South Carolina..Walter Scott shooting by Michael Slager in 2015. Slager was sentenced to 20 years.

But my thought was that the story that I looked for tonight was isolated, just one or two incidents. That is not true. Dozens of instances have been posted at You Tube where there are actual shootings and death. There are graphic warnings. Dozens from so many places in the U.S. Very sad reflection on what police often do and what happens as a result. Rarely innocent police are hurt and killed. But most of the time is seems to be some suspect hiding or running away. Lots of incidents. Too many to count. And this is very disturbing to me. I had to share these disturbing feelings about police and real shootings in the U.S.A. I guess I didn't kow there were so many..hundreds... I don't know what can be done. Perhaps someone here has an idea. And these are relatively recent, since requirements to wear these cameras are also recent... Thank You for reading this...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Thank you for posting this, my dear Stuart G...

I find it disturbing too. And I too don't know what can be done about it.

But I am glad to know about this. I know this sounds strange, but when we don't know what horrors are happening, we can't do anything about them.

We need to be aware.

[Stuart G]

2. Thank You for your kind words. Yes, this is all over the country. New York, Florada,

California, and so on. Small cities and big ones. This is a very sad reflection of this country I love. Yes, we need to be aware of this. Maybe...some efforts can be made to solve this problem.

[HopeAgain]

3. And mostly they are shooting Black Men

Black Lives Matter.