[E. Pluribus Unum]

Baker told his sister that, while in the desert, he'd stumbled across an Iraqi soldier and shot him when he reached into his uniform. The man, he later realized, was reaching for photos of his children.

He's suffering from PTSD because of people he killed in wartime and to redeem himself he commits suicide by cop, thus forcing some poor cops to have to live with killing him and possibly suffering the same effects.

[Ditter]

Hands up don’t shoot!

Reach into your pocket and you are going to get shot. I guess no one ever told him.

Very sad.

[DUMBGRUNT]

True, and also very sad.

Perhaps worse, While in country and hospitals, I was with my own kind.

When I set out into the real world, I was sheltered by the WWII and Korea vets, and they were everywhere. When I retired (IIRC) there was ONE VETERAN left in the building.

The unfortunate coppers stepped over an invisible line into the depths of hell. Nothing like you see on TV.