You're listening to, atheistically speaking. The Hey, my lovely listeners, Welcome to Atheistically Speaking episode 59. Wow, this was a this

past week and a half maybe was a rough week for news not good so I think I better go straight into a bit of

commentary Well first off I want to get my priorities straight. The news continues in Ferguson as

everyone is no doubt aware Mike Brown was shot to by some

accounts just murdered in cold blood by a police officer. There's there's so much

to say about this. I mean, I think, man, I have so many thoughts, but I think the first thing to say is,

number one, every freaking police officer in the entire land should just have a GoPro on

them just at all times and maybe specifically on their gun so we can see it from a

guns point of view like what happened because I couldn't believe when I first

heard this news as I'm sure many you I couldn't believe that there was no dashboard

camera I thought that was a law everywhere but I guess maybe only in certain states I guess I take I know it is in California.

Maybe it's because of Rodney King or something, but even that I think that was caught on a

personal camera hunt never mind. But anyway, yeah, that's unreal. This this shouldn't even be the qu- I mean, it's another topic altogether of how to get rid of, you know, if racism and police killing black people, if that's the real issue, it's going to be hard to get rid of that, but cameras would help, right?

I mean, if every single time a police officer guns somebody down, there's a first person, you know, camera

account of what was happening and we develop, you know, or they probably already have a set of rules

for what's, you know, use of lethal force. I'm sure they already have that, like, when it's appropriate. And we spell that out. And I would be, I would advocate giving police a tiny bit of leeway if in we had perfect information because there's going to be a bit of a skewed

point of view when I'm sitting comfortably in my room watching whatever this footage is,

although I probably wouldn't watch it because it'd be too horrifying but experts would have to because it might be different when you're you know a police officer you're worried about your life

There is training for that this is none of this is to say is even about the shooting that happened. I'm just saying in general

There are probably a certain number of police shootings that are justified. I mean they're probably people who go for a weapon and go to shoot the

cop and if the cop shoots them and they have a camera on them and we see what happened it's

fine you know you did your job the guy tried to shoot you you had to shoot him. That's fine

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