A friend's grand daughter was dating a Ph.D. delightful Black fellow, whose "paranoia" was well justified. He would not buy a new car because it could be a racist trigger. Does anyone recall how Michael Jordan's father died? Triggered by his nice new Lexus.

Hopefully someone will thoroughly review her social media. Neither gun nor taser were needed, so this could have been a hate-crime, even though it looks somewhat accidental. Horribly bad policing if it was an accident. Claiming to mistake the gun for the taser is a bright red flag that something more was going on. In no way did they need to take this action, nor when and in the way they did. If this 'den mother' couldn't deescalate the situation, can any of the rest be expected to? It isn't a matter that they lack training. Their culture teaches them to disregard it.

Lock her up!

Sadly, not a surprise to me although that's the emoticon I used.