In the wake of five police officers being shot to death in Dallas Thursday night and two years worth of mounting outrage and social unrest over the deaths of black civilians at the hands of police, attorneys with law enforcement backgrounds expressed dismay and sadness at recent events, lamented it could get worse after the Dallas shootings, and chalked up many of the deaths to a combination of stress, blind spots in training and for some, racial bias.
“There’s this sense there’s a lack of accountability, and this sense that if you’re in fear, you’re justified in taking any actions,” said attorney Edgar De Leon of De Leon & Associates in Manhattan, a former detective-sergeant with the New York City Police Department.
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