Evers and a number of other Democrats condemned the shooting. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called for “an immediate, full and transparent investigation” and said the officers “must be held accountable.”

“This morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another Black American is a victim of excessive force,” he said, just over two months before Election Day in a country already roiled by the recent deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. “Those shots pierce the soul of our nation.”

Mr Biden, you are calling for a full and transparent investigation, which has not happened yet, but you have already presented your own prejudged findings. The investigation is supposed to occur in full BEFORE the outcome is determined.

Why should the American people vote for a presidential candidate who clearly does not respect due process, and who instead wishes to act as a dictator who holds rigged investigations to back up his own judgment?