[X-spurt]

Reading your disconnected post, I ask.
Where did you get your Critical Thinking card? The grocery store bubblegum dispenser?

Once the perp assaults the cop, the cop is then charged (no pun intended) to PREVENT further and potentially deadly assault on the cop or any other person.

[Thumper1960]

Once upon a time, Conservatives believed in the sanctity of human life. It has come to the point where many so-called Conservatives would rather see human life snuffed out on a whim or a spurious claim of feeling in imminent danger.

I put you in the latter grouping.