Cops shoot and kill unarmed white teen. Where is the outrage?

SN Greg Wright There will not be outrage at every event and vehicles are a big threat to officers. The Officer being bludgeoned with a 7000 lbs vehicle is no joke. The facts of the story between the police and physical evidence are in dispute. So hard to tell what the truth is and that is why body cameras and other recording devices have become so important.

I'm going to wait to see the investigation before I make a call. Right now there is only one side being told.

Where's the outrage? It's right here. I'm outraged. I just don't express it by rioting and looting...

SN Greg Wright It appears that this wasn't a big sensationalize case because there wasn't mass murder and mayhem - that seems to be the ingredient for good news now days. Sorry, that was very rude of me, I apologize. I'm hoping that this will be investigated and if there is wrong doing then the appropriate action should be taken, no mater what the background, race, color, or nationality. If a police officer kills someone in cold bold or through involuntary manslaughter then they need to be held accountable no matter who the victim is. They need to be treated the same - very simple process.

Cops have a difficult job. It is stressful. They need better training and more realistic scenarios to sharpen their skills

For the answer, you have to look at who reports the "news".

Police kill a white teen, and the silence raises questions ...

Many of us are just hearing about the police shooting that claimed the life of 19-year-old Zachary Hammond on July 26.

The news lands with that familiar, convulsive ache that the death of young people brings. That a year of police-involved killings has given us.

The teenager, on a first date, was stopped in the parking lot of a Seneca, S.C., Hardee’s during a drug bust, and the officer contends he fired in self-defense as Hammond tried to run him over. His 23-year-old date was charged with possession of 10 grams (.35 ounces) of marijuana. And it feels like a life gone over so much nothing.

Yet Hammond’s killing, under cloudy circumstances — a police report never mentions the fatal gunshots — has not sparked national protests. It has not pricked us the way Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Brandon Jones, Eric Harris and Freddie Gray did. The way the killing of Samuel DuBose most recently and under the most similar circumstances did. (DuBose was also behind the wheel; the Cincinnati officer who shot him alleged that DuBose was dragging him as he was taking off.)

Hammond’s family contends that the unequal outrage is because Hammond is white.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lonnae-oneal-police-kill-a-white-teen-and-the-silence-raises-questions/2015/08/06/9aa8eed2-3c5a-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html?hpid=z13

I find it fascinating that the term "unarmed" is being used so loosely in these stories.

Better question: where's the article for your headline? The linked article I read, even with its obvious bias, is better headlined "Family working to concoct story after cop defends himself from suspicious criminal's murder attempt."
There's no attempt to deny the deceased was engaged in a criminal act. No one behind the wheel of a vehicle is actually unarmed. And I'm confused what skin complexion might have to do with any of it.

"Victim" doing a drug deal tries to run down a police officer trying to effect an arrest. There is dash cam video and it is being held pending their investigation. I'm not throwing the BS flag yet. I have never gotten into a situation like this because I don't sell/buy illegal drugs, attempt to commit vehicular homicide against a peace officer, and therefore I never find myself in these situations. Again, I'll wait for the facts.