More on the BART Shooting

[pecunium]

I am too far from the events, physically it was hundreds of miles from me, in a city I have moderate connection to (I've spent a fair bit of time in Dublin, and in SF, but the Fruitvale station, in Oakland, is a place I pass through, not part of a neighborhood I know), which makes it emotionally less visceral.

Yes, it pisses me off. joedecker isn't far from it, and he has a really good roundup of local news, and personal commentary.

Thank heaven for ubiquitous video devices, and the the net, or this would be one more abuse of power (which might be no more than making TASERs a casual tool of the police forces) easily swept under a rug.

Comments

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I heard about this on NPR this afternoon. What a terrible incident. It's very hard to understand what makes someone, anyone, act the way that policeman did. Tragic and senseless.