The article says “he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he’s a Purple Heart recipient.” If you want to interperet that as “a clerk that got cut by flying glass,” be my guest - but own it as your own call.
Also, I didn’t generalize what he did into an expectation towards other cops. On the other hand, anything that serves to lessen the current cop ROEs of unleashing death the moment any perp so much as twitches is a move in the right direction, IMHO.
I believe that this officer made some bad judgement calls because he was to afraid of the consequences if he didn't make exactly the right call and it very well could have ended in his death.
The only reason he's not dead is the perp didn't have a gun or didn't want to kill him.
No reasonable person, watching that video could fault him for pulling the trigger.