The Kentucky Attorney General, a model of decorum and thoughtfulness, has come up with this gem:
The Louisville officer who shot indiscriminately inside a Louisville apartment building, but who did not hit anyone, is indicted for "willful endangerment."
The Louisville officers who shot and killed an unarmed woman, are not indicted, and ... the killing was justified.
It makes perfect sense: the guy who shot but didn't hit anyone is charged; the guys who shot and killed are exonerated.
According to the AG, the murder was justified even though neither the woman who was killed nor her boyfriend was the subject of the warrant the officers used as the reason to enter the home in the first place. The murder was tragic, though, according to the AG.
It was justified because the officers returned gun fire from the boyfriend, who thought the officers were intruders. The President, NRA loyalists, and Republican senators at the federal and state level all celebrate the right of citizens to have guns to protect themselves. Not, apparently, black citizens, though. They are not protected by the 2nd Amendment, in addition to not being protected by many other provisions of the Constitution that apply to all other citizens. That, too, is tragic.
The decision of the Kentucky AG has nothing to do with race, he declaims, and the fact that another Black person is dead is tragic.
The most glaring tragedy of all is the reasoning and the political contortions of the Kentucky AG.
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