As you two and others in this thread have said. I agree here.

Exactly this. In this instance, one is not at the expense of the other.

I think another problem is how too closely knit the black community feels it needs to be. This definitely doesn't go for all, but I feel too many side with other black people just because they are also black. It doesn't matter how the facts present themselves, they believe the initial story the media tried to push (which is an issue in itself) and refuse to accept that it may have happened differently as more details emerge.

Two examples that spring to mind are Michael Brown, with the "hands up, don't shoot" lie, and the Treyvon Martin case, where his family and the media only published pics of him that were 5-6 years old from when he was 11-12 and initially claimed Zimmerman was white. Which led many to believe Martin was a very young boy shot by a white man, not a 17 year old, nearly 6 ft tall, young man shot by a Hispanic. Having a "snitches get stitches" policy also isn't a great way to clean up your local community and just allows crime to spread. 

As for police shootings, we know from the raw data the problem is greatly exaggerated, though there are definitely cases where the cop should have been convicted. The problem is we focus too often on those, maybe because many of them are publicized, but seemingly not at all on the ones where the cops are found guilty of wrongdoing.

The dude murdered someone. Period. Every cop who demonstrably isn't "defending themselves" should be punished like this. And frankly, while I get that it's a dangerous job, this isn't the movies. This "shoot first, ask questions later" needs to stop being the police's reflex response, period.