Decius wrote:
For me, the real source of frustration in incidents like this is that police seem to be given the benefit of the doubt... placed on paid leave during long investigations... whereas some "street thug" (read black teenager) under similarly questionable circumstances would have been arrested and charged with murder before the ink was even dry on the police report. It would be easier to trust the justice system to reach the right conclusion in incidents like this if that system at least gave the appearance of being blind. It does not.

Even the headline gives the officer the benefit of the doubt. The civilian was merely "fatally wounded" as opposed to "shot" or "killed".

RE: Police fatally wound man at Oakland BART station on NYE