Walter Scott Homicide explained - very well by NY Times Reporter

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1377480/-New-York-Times-op-ed-gets-to-the-heart-of-the-Walter-Scott-case?detail=facebook_sf

Charles M. Blow has a really perfectly stated and straight to the point piece about the Walter Scott homicide.

I find it particularly disturbing the way that we try to find excuses for killings, the way that we seek to deprecate a person when they have been killed rather than insisting that they deserved to remain among the living. For me, there is only one issue in the Walter Scott case: he is dead, and that cannot be undone. And not only was he killed, but he was killed in a most dishonorable way: shot in the back as he fled. So, for me there is only one question: Should the dead man be dead? Is there anything, under American jurisprudence and universal moral law, that justifies the taking of this man’s life?

Mr. Blow points out that neither the traffic stop nor the ensuing charges that would have been filed (resisting arrest, child support) come with a death sentence.