To air is human, to prevent is divine.

As we’ve mentioned, there’s plenty of reason to believe that the overexcited cop thought that he was firing his Taser. That’s a conclusion that even the victim’s attorney implicitly conceded. “It doesn't matter if he was reaching for a Taser or not. At the end of the day, it's what [the officer] did that counts.” Meanwhile nervous BART officials avoided all talk of race and promised what bureaucracies usually promise when stuff hits the fan: to review their procedures.