Good point Felix. From my frame of reference, it seems that situations such as the police shooting in my neighborhood this week have broader implications than being sensitive to the care and feeding of the individual who ended up in the morgue. If an individual is out there driving around and he has so little regard for cooperating with and getting along with law enforcement officers with their flashing lights and unholstered weapons, such an individual very likely poses a real and immediate danger to the general population. So, the police upset him to the point of smashing cars and flying bullets. What if I had upset him? Or the nice lady next door? There's an elementary school 1 block from my house, and at 8 in the morning, the kids are on the street moving towards the campus. What would it take for a child to piss off such an individual? I don't know either. But I do know that a person who is so wound up that he's prepared to confront and lash out at armed police officers almost certainly poses a danger to the general, unarmed masses of commuters and school kids that this man was sharing the roads with Tuesday morning.
Maybe the police used excessive force. That will be determined soon enough. But I do appreciate them for risking their lives to get a dangerous individual off the road.
