Trayvon All Over Again?

OFFICER SHUT UNARMED MAN 10 TIMES

A few weeks ago, in Charlotte, North Carolina, a 24-year old man Jonathan Ferell got into a car accident on an early Saturday morning. New to the area, he crashed accidentally around 2 in the morning. He pulled himself out of the back of his car, and walked a half of a mile to the nearest house to get help. He began "banging on the door viciously", it now being around 2:30 a.m. The woman answered the door, saw him, quickly shut the door and called the police. The man did not threaten her. The man was not carrying a weapon. When police arrived on the scene later, they found him walking the other direction and tased him. When he did not go down, the officer shot him. 10 times. (Actually, they fired 12 shots, but only 10 made their mark.)

The Police Department quickly arrested the officer who shot the man on charges of voluntary manslaughter. He will face trial soon.

The problem that I have with this situation is not the same issue that so many have taken up with the Trayvon case and the verdict against Zimmerman. While the officer obviously should not have shot the man-he was unarmed, and had not threatened anyone or attempted anything, there seems to be much more of a general consensus around this case that the officer was the one in the wrong. Not the young man seeking help. My problem with this is that it happened in the first place. Obviously, there is a blanket, "Racism is wrong" statement to be made. But it goes beyond that. There are so many other factors that make this even worse. The man had just been in a serious car accident, and was most likely injured. Did the officers not notice that? Additionally, at this point it has been close to an hour since the man was in the car accident, and left his car. Are we supposed to believe that no one had passed the car in over an hour, in a populous place like Charlotte, and that the police weren't aware that their was someone missing from the scene of an accident? To reiterate other points, he also, was not armed, and the officers should have been able to tell that. Finally, he was asking for help. With all of these points combined, it makes it clear that this was entirely an issue of race.

What do you guys think about this? Do you think this could gain national attention? Will people care less because the victim is older?