That the black man was the one who was shot — though he had no weapon — might come as little surprise at a time when police shootings involving black men seem commonplace nationally. But taken together, they prompt a difficult and unanswerable question:If their races were reversed — if Smith were white, and Baker were black — would Baker have been the one who was left bleeding and writhing in pain? Finkley is black; Stahl is white. “Everybody scared of the police, every black man that’s from around” the neighbourhood where the shooting occurred, he said. “But now it’s like, something goes wrong, you make the wrong move, you make the wrong gesture … and now I’m shot.

Source: National Post January 06, 2019 14:37 UTC