Leaving Fort Leavenworth, KS one weekend, my OCS buddies and I were pulled over by 15-20 KCMO police cars. We had about 4 guns in each of our faces. It was surreal, and was just like the final scene in "The Blues Brothers"....anyways, we froze and didnt panic. We heard someone shouting, "Thats not it, wrong car! It has Missouri plates!".....we got a prompt apology and they were persuing a bank robber that had shot a clerk and killed a woman standing in line driving the exact same car as we were. In addition, we were all white/asian, perps were black.
Anyways, moral of the story: We had guns pointed at us, were searched, we did as we were told, and we did NOT get shot.
This lady cost her her own life. Had I gone all crazy like she did, me and my battle buddies probably would have been killed.
Your own anecdote belies your reasoning.
About 30 years ago I was perusing the mags at a 7-11 in CO. Unbeknownst to me I perfectly matched the description of a guy who had escaped the NM pen a couple days earlier, and had since murdered two convenience store clerks and a cop.
Clerk called it in, again quite without my awareness.
Somebody came through the door behind me. Next thing I knew I had a shotgun in my neck, and half a second later I was on the ground with my hands cuffed behind me.
Had I made a wrong move when they came in, they almost certainly would have blown my head off and then apologized to my wife and daughter. And by any logical standard they would have been entirely justified to do so.
It’s like these stories about the cops killing someone acting aggressively crazy because he’s off his meds. How are the cops supposed to know he’s quite and gentle when he’s had them? Why should it make any difference?
However, I don’t know enough about this particular case to comment on whether the cops were in the right.
Maybe next time it will be your mom, or your sister or your daughter that is too scared and panicked to follow the approved procedure when she gets the complete and undivided attention of the king's men. Nah...never mind. It can't happen to anyone you care about. It's just stupid liberal bitches that get capped.