Of Course They Would

From the Las Vegas Sun: The NAACP in Las Vegas wants a federal probe and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is calling for an independent investigation of Las Vegas police practices after a police shooting that killed an unarmed 43-year-old Gulf War veteran behind the wheel of his car in a Las Vegas condominium complex.
The calls for outside oversight came two days after Sheriff Douglas Gillespie pleaded for patience from the public and promised a thorough internal investigation of the Monday morning slaying of Stanley Lavon Gibson. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/dec/14/us-police-slaying-vegas-3rd-ld-writethru/
The ACLU and the NAACP are a bunch of liberal organizations that hate cops and think every police shooting is criminal. And when the cops do shoot a bad person, they are totally silent. These two organizations are one of the main reasons why crime in the inner city of Las Vegas and other cities are so high. They rip on the police and they coddle criminals. There is really nothing more to say than this. The ACLU and the NAACP has never met a criminal they don't like and a police officer they think does a good job. They are also piggy backing on a LVRJ hack job on the Metro police officers, so the ACLU and NAACP are just taking advantage of some extra publicity on a police shooting. They both are shameful organizations.
That being said, the latest police shooting is somewhat troubling- not by Metro but by the VA. From the Las Vegas Sun: Gibson's friends and family members say he had a troubled personal history, was suffering from cancer he blamed on his Army service, had recently had his Veterans Affairs disability payments reduced, and was due for sentencing on an assault charge after an argument with a Veterans Affairs doctor.
Gibson's wife, Rondha Gibson, has told reporters that her husband ran out of anxiety medication and was prone to paranoid delusions and anxiety, with fears that people were after him. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/dec/14/us-police-slaying-vegas-3rd-ld-writethru/ The VA also dropped his disability from 100% to 30%. Trust me, when you go off strong medication, a person will go through withdrawls and when that happens, it is not a pretty picture.
As far as Metro and the shooting, you had a individual who was wanted for burglary and was cornered. He tried to get out of the situation by slamming his car into the police cruisers, which is a threatening manner. If you look on the Officer Down Memorial Page (http://www.odmp.org/) you will see that there have been many police officers killed by vehicular assault this year, so while the victim was no armed with a gun, he was armed with a car. Could Metro handled the situation better? Perhaps, starting with communication. However, it was an extremely tense situation, especially when the victim put the car into gear and tried to get out. So, while I am sure the Monday morning quarterbacks say the shooting was preventable, I don't think so.
And since I have been in Las Vegas, I have only seen 1 shooting, the Trevon Cole shooting, where Metro was in the wrong, even though Trevon Cole was a drug dealer I have serious questions about the Erik Scott shooting at a local Costco but I can see how that went wrong.
So, 1 and maybe 2 bad shootings in Las Vegas in 6 years and the ACLU and NAACP are screaming to the high heavens about bad police shootings. People complain that the cops should have acted differently when a thug kid holds a knife to his mom's throat or a thug runs after cops with a knife but if things turned out differently, these same people, if they had lived, would then complain the cops didn't do enough.
So, the ACLU and NAACP are doing their typical liberal ambulance chasing. What a surprise. (sarcasm)