Cop hysteria before Obama takes the White House?

I have just one question: What the hell is going on? We're not even half way through the month of January and cops seem to just be extra trigger-happy. Is it the economy? The war in Iraq? A Black man taking over the White House? What is it? There have been several stories of racially-motivated conflicts against Blacks by in the past couple of weeks.

Here is the one that is getting the most press:

Dumbass cop shoots unarmed and subdued Black man lying on ground.

In this case, in the early morning hours following the opening of the new year, a fist-fight between two groups of people had broken out on a line of the BART subway system in a San Francisco east-bay community (NOTE: this was a "fist" fight --- no weapons were drawn). According to accounts, the cops were called and just one group of the participants were pulled off and subdued. The shooting victim was drawn on and shot after several cops already had pushed him to the ground and put him under control. There are videos of the event floating around the internet (which I'm not including due to a big distaste for publicizing actual murder footage). But it shows that he is not struggling or fighting the cops. His hands are not reaching for anything, there's at least one cop still kneeling on him. Then one idiot (cop) decides that he needs to escalate the control they have over him. He draws a weapon and fires. Half a second later, he has a stunned expression and is looking at the closest cop partner for a reaction or who knows. It's speculated that he meant to only shoot the guy with a taser and not a pistol, but pulled his gun by mistake. Even if this is the case, many want him to answer for what they see as a crime. And I would have to agree with them in this case. There are two reasons for this. The first is, the guy was already under control and not fighting the cops, so why do more harm to him? What was the point of using the taser? Was it just a show of force? Maybe teach him a good lesson for ruining someone's New Year's Eve? Why? He took it to the next level for absolutely no reason. There was no cause for it. No good valid excuse can be given for this that should be accepted.

The second reason the cop should answer for this and go to jail is that you have to be a real idiot to not be able to tell the difference between a taser and a real gun. When you plan on shooting someone with something and you've got two weapons on you, one of which is supposed to be used only for deadly purposes, you would think the person would look down and make sure the correct weapon is in hand. It doesn't appear this guy even thought about it. He's supposed to be a professionally trained law enforcement officer. It doesn't appear that is the case either. Hell maybe his partner should be included as well in this case, he got up and stepped away from the victim so that the other officer could make the shot. He would've seen what was drawn and been in a very good position to warn his partner. But as is the case when it comes to White cops and Black people, the cops shoot first and sort things out second. Black people never get any consideration before a situation gets out of hand, the cops just assume that Blacks are automatically guilty and deserve deadly force immediately.

Hopefully this case will make this point clear to the American public, but most of all to the judicial system which will finally make cops pay for their excessive and brutal treatment of blacks.