I hope it does get a lot of public airing and some real accountability. As much as I detest what happened in the Calvo case, shooting an unarmed and restrained person in the back is much worse.

Perhaps ironically, I'm pretty sure that Mayor Calvo is himself Hispanic. I give him a lot of credit for not exploiting that fact in the press, because in his case I think his race was truly irrelevant. He seems to be taking steps to generate some accountability, but he's not using race baiting in the process. Calvo has also taken pains to point out that the department that invaded his home has a history of doing the same things in poorer neighborhoods where the citizens don't have his means of fighting back.

IMO there is a serious mentality problem pervading much of our law-enforcement community which has been aggravated by terms like "war on drugs" and aggravated further by the checkpoint, police-state, anything-for-security philosophy touted by the Federal government since 9/11. TSA turning citizens with large amounts of legal cash over to LEOs for possible/probable seizure of their cash is just one small example of the problem. A very insightful poster in another FT discussion a while back pointed out that the root of the problem was when police stopped being "peace officers" and started being "law-enforcement officers."