Nothing will ever convince me that what happened to Philando was justified. However, things are just as ignorant in other countries as well.
In Pakistan, you can get the death penalty for hearsay testimony claiming you "blasphemed the prophet Mohammed."
Asia Bibi was with a group of Muslims harvesting something (I think it was strawberries) to make money and they forbid her to drink from the same well as them and mocked Jesus. Being Christian, Asia made the mistake of asking them what Mohammed had done for them. She was beaten by those women and then she got thrown in jail.
She's been sitting on death row since 2010 while the Catholic Pope and human rights groups all over the world are still fighting for her release. Two government officials spoke out in her favor and both of them were murdered by a jihadist mob who were then hailed as "heroes."
Apparently, there's no guarantee you'll even be safe in jail because an angry mob could get in there and beat you to death in your cell. That happened to a woman who was riding on a motorcycle with her boyfriend and they accidentally crashed into a statue of the prophet Mohammed. IIRC, the guy died and the woman was thrown in jail, where she was later beaten to death by an angry mob.
It isn't the exact same situation. I see the point you're trying to make that we are a civilized country where a lot of our laws make sense and whenever a black person is shot, it's a trip down the rabbit hole when people go out of their way to justify it. I agree with your point that we are mainly a rational country that suddenly takes a turn for the dangerously irrational when we want to justify a cop shooting someone who they had no real reason to shoot.
I also agree we give the police way too much power. Our outward rationality starts to feel like a veneer when we go out of our way to justify nonsense like this.
