DEPUTY SHOOTS, MAN IN LAKESIDE WHO FIRED SHOTS AMID DOMESTIC DISPUTE

There are uncomfortable questions to ask here. Here is a white man terrorizing his own family, including popping off a few rounds from an assault style weapon. He took fire from the police, and is very lucky to be alive. How do we design use of deadly force policy in this country to allow the police to protect the family from a Men's Rights Movement type like Dustin Banzhof, but also protect black men talking on a mobile phone or having some minor altercation with police from being murdered? There is no doubt black men have been killed at a high rate due to a combination of very lax use of deadly force policy and the combined effects of racism and militarism among police. That is just numbers people, counting. But how do we feel when police use of force stops a looming murder suicide like this? I'll say it, good on the deputies! Another uncomfortable question is, what does a white man have to do to escalate towards being shot by the police? Apparently a lot more than holding a vape pen or passing out at a Wendy's. I do think that more preventative social services and greater fundamental equality are among the answers, perhaps at the cost of some police funding. But none of of this is adequate, and solutions and balancing are indeed very difficult. We need deeper healing, and especially cures for toxic masculinity and racial hatred. (Remove the statues, for example.) And we need reform to policing including better training, perhaps degrees and licensing. Deadly force policy has to be rewritten: police can't expect to keep both their high salaries AND the protection to shoot first and ask questions later. But even then, we are faced with many uncomfortable questions. Let's get to work. Above all we need to elect leaders who are not in denial and who don't pimp easy solutions. This is hard, as actual problems usually are.