When Veronica Nelson got the call that her 19-year-old son had been shot by Fresno police, she was actually relieved.
She was staying in Pismo Beach, taking care of her mother-in-law who has stage four cancer. When she heard the news, she scrambled to pack a bag of clothes because she thought she’d be spending nights in the hospital with her son. On the two-and-a-half hour drive home, she imagined scenarios: he might be wheelchair bound for the rest of his life or lose an arm or leg from the gunshot wounds.
I was happy that it was a police officer instead of someone out on the streets t…