It doesn’t work that way. The cop needs to prove the boy was an immediate life endangering threat. Not a cop basher here by any means, but the cop is an agent of the state, and the state killed that kid. We need to know why, and we need unbiased an complete information.
Regardless, if the perp offed himself, he did it because he was engaged with thte SRO and did not want to be taken. Most shooters in these situation kill until confronted, or they run out of easy targets. Then they suicide.
By confronting the perp, whether he hit him or not, the SRO saved lives. Period.
Video was reversed. The decedent was actually the driver.
When cops have an “us vs them” mentality, every interaction with the public is expected to go bad...a self fulfilling prophesy.
As far as the calmness of the girlfriend, she was obviously in desperate fear of her life and trying to talk down a crazy, irrational maniac who had a gun pointed at her. If she had “freaked out”, she’d be dead, and she knew it.
There's also a site called The Fifth Imperium where the CD's Baen used to include with their hardcovers are posted. The CDs contain tons of free ebooks, usually sorted by author and series.
David Weber...pretty much anything by him including the Honor Harrington series and its spin offs, the Safehold series (one of my favorites), Empire of man series, and so on...
John Ringo’s “Black Tide Rising” series fascinated me some how, I’m not sure why. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in post apocalyptic fiction. His Posleen War series was also very good, though some of the spin-offs got a bit tedious. His Council Wars series was definitely a different spin on a forced return to pre-industrial age society, and lastly his “Paladin of Shadows” series quite rightly sparked the “Oh John Ringo, No!” meme a few years ago, but I still liked them ;)