Richard,
To address the issue of disproportionate police shootings of African Americans, shouldn't one also address the issue that African Americans' criminal activity rate is far disproportionate to their representation overall in our population? To bemoan the former but forget the latter (which would certainly skew the former's statistical impact) seems rather imprudent. Perhaps both should be equally scrutinized and addressed to improve our national condition.

Another interesting statistic...roughly 95% of those suspects in which lethal force was used by police were armed.  How would you propose our "amateurish and trigger-happy police" (another fallacy not supported factually given the number of police contacts annually versus their use of lethal force in those contacts) respond? Do you also have any peer reviewed statistics to support your assertion that lethal force is utilized systemically by the police against POC in circumstances that they would not do the same to Caucasians?