IDIOT LOGIC : Guy attacks cop with an Axe, cops shoot and kill him, "Black Lives Matter" protesters blame the cop

Police in Selma, Ala. released video on Tuesday of an officer fatally shooting an ax-wielding elderly black man. The incident from more than a year ago is now sparking local protests similar to those inspired by the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. The shaky, five-minute video from the officer’s body camera shows the officer and a few of his partners approaching Ananias Shaw, 74, in response to a disorderly conduct call on Dec. 4, 2013. Shaw grabs a hatchet and wanders around a residential street, sometimes cursing at the cops, as the officer holds his gun at Shaw and repeatedly commands, “Put the ax down!” When Shaw starts approaching the officer, yelling “Shoot it! Shoot it!,” the officer fires a shot at Shaw. Shortly after the shooting, the panting officer tells a colleague, “He came after me with the ax, man.” The officer, whose name was never released, was cleared of any wrongdoing by a grand jury, the Birmingham News reported. Even though the officer who shot Shaw is also black, the case reemerged as a hot topic in Selma’s “Black Lives Matter” protests responding to the decisions to acquit white officers who killed Ferguson, Mo. teenager Michael Brown and Staten Island father Eric Garner, both unarmed black men. Protesters on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in December chanted “Show the tape!” in addition to the national slogans “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe,” the Atlanta Black Star reported. The video was released in response to the protesters’ requests, the Birmingham News said. Selma protesters are demanding another grand jury investigation of the case. Activist Faya Rose Toure, who helps organize Selma’s Black Lives Matter protests, told the Birmingham News she believes the officer acted unjustly because Shaw was “mentally ill.”