Are Cities and Police Falling to Mob Rule?

As retired law enforcement I support law enforcement 100% and always give the officer(s) the benefit of the doubt. But here is a question I have. A white police officer in Minnesota, in the heat of the moment, drew her firearm instead of her taser and accidentally killed a black suspect. The city council fired her immediately and fired the City Manager because he dared to call for due process. The officer admitted she made a mistake and resigned and has now been arrested and charged with manslaughter. OK. Fair enough. Due process after the fact

A Capitol Police officer shot and killed an unarmed white woman during the riot on January 6th. Video and photos show the woman was standing inside the building doing nothing aggressive when a police officer shot her through the window of a secured and barricaded door. The officer has not been identified and to my knowledge no charges were filed. That officer has disappeared from radar.

What are the differences? Minneapolis - black suspect, white officer. Continued rioting, looting, burning in the streets. 

Washington DC - white victim, officer's race and ethnicity unknown. No rioting in the streets.

Are law enforcement officers today facing punitive actions based on comminity outrage or the ethnicity of not only the victims and police officers but Mayors and City Council members as well?

Remember in Baltimore a few years ago when a black suspect died inside a police van and there was violence in the streets? County Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged five white officers with manslaughter. Things quieted down in the city until all five of those officers were acquitted. Then Baltimore was on fire again.

Minneapolis is going to burn again if the verdict in the Chauvin trial, whatever it may be, is not good enough for the demonstrators. One cannot help but wonder if that reality is high in the minds of the prosecutors, jury members and the judge. Can a person be found guilty in a court case because jurors are afraid of what will happen in their community if it doesn't happen? It's one of the reasons Chauvin's trial should have been moved.

I personally don't believe he will receive a fair, honest verdict because people are scared. And rightly so. Unchecked violence in the streets, allowed by mayors, city councils and police chiefs, create fear within communities.

Seattle's Police Chief resigned last year because the Seattle city council would not let her department respond properly to rioting. Portland has been on fire for well over a year due to leadershop failure. Remember the Baltimore mayor a few years ago saying "We have to give them room to destroy?" Big mistake.