It's weird to hear this conversation coming from people so far removed from the situation.

Living here, it's really less about the original shooting than it is about the response... in conversations I've had at least.

Whatever else is going on, it's wrong to point a gun at an unarmed person who is across the street from you, standing still. Even if they're shouting. Even if they have a camera. Even if you have a badge.

It's wrong for a SWAT team to kick all of the customers out of a restaurant so that the SWAT team can have a meal (days after the event, when there is no immediate threat to anything nearby).

It's wrong to enforce a curfew on a residential community when many people have night jobs / 2 jobs / perfectly legal reasons to not be imprisoned in their own home.

It is missing the point if you characterize this without acknowledging that this is about race, and the present lingering racism that is institutionalized in our political system.