FOLKS. LET'S BE REALISTIC HERE.
IF HE WAS NOT CHARGED, RIOTS R US WOULD BE DESTROYING AGAIN.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LYNCHING?
Correct, he's being used as a scapegoat because they are too afraid to stand up to the angry mob
It wasn't a cut and dried case, there has been a lot of reasonable debate on both sides. But I agree with you that they are afraid of the angry mob. His immediate firing, the description of their actions after Brooks was shot, the felony murder charge....those were pc pandering. Cops have one of the most challenging jobs there is. Someone HAS to have their back when a case goes bad and they are attacked. They deal with dangerous, unpredictable people sometimes. And cops are human, too.
Is Officer Rolfe racist? How would I know? He has won commendations for his DUI work. He seemed respectful but businesslike enough during his 40-some minute assessment of Brooks before all shit hit the fan. Brooks wrestled them, took his partner's tazer and ran, firing the tazer at Rolfe. It might not have been by the book, but I think if the guy had been white, the outcome might have been the same. Adrenaline, self protection instinct, it all happened in moments, no time to sit down and think it over like in ethics training. Tazers are seldom lethal but they incapacitate you. Rofle knew that, knew he had been seriously threatened. Did he count how many times Brosnan's tazer had been fired before Brooks stole it? Do you really think he knew or that he was thinking about that as he dodged that tazer barb? Rolfe had no shots left in his tazer either. So he pulled his gun. Without even thinking about it. It is what you do.
Maybe he should be in trouble for the decisions he made, but I think they're understandable. The law doesn't forgive based on sympathy, but what the D.A. and mayor did is ugly.