The intolerance of the public and the demand for instant results may be a proximate cause of some recent high profile incidents which at first may seem far removed from Waco. An autopsy reveals that she was hit by 12 shots in the fusillade fired at her. You turn to police and you call them for help and help comes firing bullets. That's like death squads. That's like tyranny.
People deserve better.
The county district attorney's office is conducting a grand jury investigation and the FBI is making a preliminary inquiry, but will these probes merely blame or exonerate the police officers involved, without discovering what social forces created the atmosphere for their actions. The alleged brutalizing last fall of a suspect, also black, by New York City police in a station house while the young man was in custody was followed more recently by an even scarier incident, also from New York City. Four police officers fired over 40 shots at an unarmed man, killing him on the doorstep of his home. First reports indicated that they may have suspected him of being a rapist they were seeking. They hit him 19 times.