Another tragedy mere days after the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri, this one on the West Coast, likewise involving a police shooting of a suspect, under very suspicious circumstances. Once again witnesses agree that the man shot by the police force in this case, Ezell Ford, was not in any way posing a threat-- he was in fact complying with police demands to not resist and was on the ground. He was taken to the hospital but sadly, later died of his injuries.
Obviously this is early after the report and there's a lot we don't know, but on top of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, it's a potentially explosive situation. A lot of smug idiots who bought into the very questionable claims of the Ferguson police (that Brown somehow "went Rambo" and tried to grab the cops' gun in the police car-- even though he was shot a good distance away from it while fleeing) kept insisting that Brown and other suspects would be "just fine' as long as they obeyed the arresting officers' instructions. Well, here we have a case of an arrested suspect doing exactly that, on the ground and complying with police instructions, who was nevertheless murdered in cold blood based on witness reports.
It's also worth noting that much of the community in the region is already on edge due to lingering anger and ongoing investigations involving the fatal shooting of teenaged Andy Lopez, who was targeted by a deputy who mistook the young man's toy gun for an assault weapon. These sorts of incidents are growing in frequency, and the region's African-American and Latino communities in particular are already viewing armed authorities with deep suspicion. If indeed it turns out that Ezell Ford was shot while he was complying with police instructions, all hell will break loose, because suspects (Black and Latino suspects in particular) will have even more reason to fear that an "arrest" attempt against them might actually turn into a murder attempt against them. Perhaps due to nothing more than a cop amped up on a power trip, or whatever explanation in the Ford shooting turns out to be the case.