This week, two innocent black men were shot dead by police officers. On Monday evening, Alston Sterling was, as per his normal weekday schedule, selling CDs outside his local supermarket in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was also carrying a handgun in his pocket; Louisiana is an open carry state, and Sterling had been mugged in the past. Based on a phone complaint by an anonymous individual, police arrived and confronted Sterling about his gun. In the process of tackling and arresting Sterling (for what, exactly, I still don’t know), the officers had pinned Sterling to the ground, when one yelled “He’s got a gun!” Immediately after, at least one if not both officers opened fire, killing Sterling with point blank shots to the chest and back. In a similarly disturbing case, on Wednesday evening a police officer in St. Paul,…