Sixty seconds. That seems to be an average amount of time that police officers give a situation before fatally shooting people of color. Philando Castile was shot 64 seconds from the time he and his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, were stopped by Jeronimo Yanez. Of course, this isn’t a hard and fast rule—especially when it comes to children. Seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot about nine seconds from the time police surrounded the house she was in, attempting to do a raid to serve an arrest warrant. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was shot within two seconds of officers approaching him in the park in which he was playing with a pellet gun by himself. But the sixty second rule stood again last night as a police officer in Oklahoma City shot a deaf man—despite repeated cries from neighbors and family members that the man was hearing impaired.....
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