Common Myths About The Purple Heart Medal
The PH medal can be awarded to anyone who is hurt in a war zone.
Not true. The PH medal can legally be authorized to only three groups of personnel:
One, those wounded or injured as a direct result of hostile enemy action.
Second, those wounded or injured as a direct result of friendly fire (FF). (Broadly speaking, FF occurs only during a hostile encounter or initiative with, or in response to, an enemy when someone on your side mistakes you for the enemy.) Or when injured by your own non-projectile weapon (bayonet, sword, blunt instrument, etc.) or projectile weapons fire (bullet, explosive device, etc) while engaging, responding to or attacking an enemy.
And third, POWs injured or wounded as a result of individually directed conflict or punishment with their captor in violation of any article of the Geneva Convention Rules of Warfare Concerning the Treatment of Prisoners of War whether or not the captor’s government is a signatory to the Convention.
I do not want out of control cops killing innocents. I also do not want good cops sacrificing there lives because they're too scared of the consequences for protecting themselves which is what I believe happened here.
If the cop had pulled the trigger no reasonable person could have faulted him.