You said:" BUT, the vast majority of the time it starts with the subject's behavior."Hole cow Pags!! So much work to be done here. It is not legal to shoot people because they become "fiesty". And cops do not shoot people for a traffic stop. This thinking is exact what I was talking about. You can imagine I feel like you would if some guy in the press wrote something preposterous about helicopter performance.
Same laws apply to police shootings as citizens defending themselves, except there is a higher standard for cops because of their training. And that is true for traffic stops as well as armed robbery in progress or any other scenario.
As to evidence. Much has been pointed out above. More and better can be found for yourself. I am not doing your research for facts you desire and should know before you opine.
Hence my feisty comment. Sounds to me that if a cop feels like he's not being shown the proper respects to his liking then there's nothing that can stop him from pulling someone from their car, arresting them, and then have them die in jail. Kind of hard for that person to appeal after the fact.
and the fact that ANYONE should be telling their kids that "do what the cops say. Think happy thoughts and it will all be over soon " in America is kind of messed up.
i thought cops were there to help, to protect, and to serve the population. Not for the population to "grab rags" whenever the police are here and show the proper respects. As far as I can tell a cop could shoot anyone he wanted and get away with it.
and that's why I say the cops have an image problem. And hey, I did my own research and let's see what the US Commission on Civil Right's report to Pres. Trump says:
"The best available evidence reflects high rates of uses of force nationally, with increased likelihood of police use of force against people of color...Repeated and highly publicized incidents of police use of force against persons of color and people with disabilities, combined with a lack of accurate data, lack of transparency about policies and practices in place governing use of force, and lack of accountability for noncompliance foster a perception that police use of force in communities of color and the disability community is unchecked, unlawful, and unsafe."
https://www.usccr.gov › pubsPDF
Police Use of Force - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
The people have lost faith in how police are employed in America. To ignore or wish away that perception is...I don't know. Awful? Awfully typical? Or maybe this is just another coy "I know that but I'm testing you" post.
At the end of all this I hope that all the local LE agencies take this opportunity to sit down with their communities and determine how they could do better. If LE said "hey, looks like a lot of people are mad at us we should see how we can improve" then that would be a good first.step. I do think that most cops join out of a desire to serve and to do well but their agencies need to figure out how to do that on a community level.