So I mostly agree with you. I'd only like to point out that the media narrative is that this is a racial issue, and they've been pounding that drum for years now and it's heightened race tensions in this country. Which obviously isn't a good thing as witnessed by the events in Dallas last night.
Believe it or not, more white people are killed by cops each year than black people in the USA (or mexican, asian, other etc) No, not proportionately to their respective populations, but more sheer people. And not all of those are just shootings, in fact I've known of 3 in the last 5 years locally... where a white person was killed by police while unarmed in fairly questionable circumstances... caused families to be outraged, even slight local community outrage, but that was it.
No CNN front page, no month long coverage and investigation and media pundits sounding off. Nothing, no story whatsoever... at most just a blip in the local newspaper, some side piece article buried on pg 7.
This is a socioeconomic issue, this is a police training issue, this is a result of mounting distrust between law enforcement and the public and the insistence to protect gun culture in this country. Racism has it's place in this conversation but not in the way it's being mainlined in the media.