Wow, I have a lot to say, but I would instead pose the following question. If it was in NYC and a black man, that was 'shot' would we all say the same thing.
Or on a better parallel since we might say NYC has not had recent suicide attacks, what if it was in Israel, and a Palestinian was killed.
I do think it was an unfortuniate mistake, not exactly the same as murder.
This is what I would call more grey then either black or white (murder / justified), and leaves open a lot of legal / moral questions. Like what if a citizens saw a guy like that, and tried stopping someone and the person died (not neccesarily by a weapon)?
This is a sad reality we live in.
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