"Any white person who robbed a store, assaulted the clerk, slugged a cop, tried to take his gun, then ran away, and then turned back and charged the cop would have been shot repeatedly until he fell and stopped moving."

Not in the country I live in. Even assuming those are the actual facts of the case, which is disputed, and appear to rest primarily on the assertions of Mr Wilson.

If American cops killed unarmed civilians on an equal opportunities basis that would in some ways be a step forward. But not all that much forward.