"Cops are trigger happy," he snarled.
The notion that our cops are trigger-happy or out of control is unsupported by facts or statistics.
Coping with triggers is now beginning to achieve recognition in the literature.
The star told DeGeneres that his 24-hour stint in jail is what eventually snapped him out of his behavior, and apologized for spitting on a cop, which triggered his arrest.
It's yet another case of an innocent person dying because cops pulled the trigger too quickly.
Noble's mother is seeking damages for her son's death, and his father has called out the cops for being "trigger-happy".
Here's a clip from the episode, in which one of the town's police officers defends his kind, saying that "not all cops are racist, trigger-happy assholes". .
Heather Taylor, a detective with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and president of the St. Louis Ethical Society of Police — an organization within the department that advocates for reforms — said the decision to shoot is always subjective, and some cops are more trigger-happy than others.
We've had enough of the police brutality, of the colorblind mythologies and post-racial rhetoric, of the sweet-talk, of the calls for non-violence; of mass incarceration and systemic poverty, of trigger happy cops and crying black mothers, of the Eric Garners and Renisha McBrides, the Michael Browns and Tarika Wilsons; of black tears and white terror.
He shuns candidacy for the role of party fixer, smoothing scandals wrought by vengeful tarts, trigger-happy cops and crooked cockfighters.
Black people are being shot dead in the street almost daily by trigger-happy cops and two ostensibly smart men, who have both produced excellent work and who pride themselves on being engaged academics responsive to the needs of the black community, are firing broadsides at each other.
