If what you are saying is correct, it doesn’t say much for the integrity of any of those agencies...
I think you are grasping at straws...
I think those wanna-be heroes were just itching to shoot somebody.....
“it doesn’t say much for the integrity of any of those agencies...”
So? Their job was to stop him. Lying to suspects is well-defended in case law. I don’t like it any more than you do, but that’s standard operating procedure in such a case. The cop’s job isn’t to get the law perfect, it’s to apprehend suspects.