Then there's the stand your ground aspect ~ which only one poster got into at any length, and that involved the cop's rights to defend his employer's property ~ using deadly force!
That was rather complex and esoteric and maybe lawyers can argue it out ~ so it got dropped quite quickly.
The cop will eventually be interrogated in depth by some civil damages lawyers out to use Walmart as a deep pocket.
I am sure every single lawyer will ask him when he observed the children and did he aim his pistola at them, and for how long.
Again, that'll be in the civil cases ~ the criminal cases will take a different tack ~ initially against the women, I see a problem for the OTHER store security personnel if the video evidence doesn't back them up on their claim that these women paid for small purchases to cover the fact they were stealing other stuff and hiding it. That happens sometimes. The big criminal here, though, is the dead woman. She doesn't answer any questions; doesn't go to trial; her part in the crimes, if any, doesn't get brought to court, etc.
There's a judge somewhere who is personally distraught ~ he knows he shouldn't have let this woman go ~ she needed locked up. She's dead and half a dozen others have screwed up lives now due to his mistake.
Of course she wasn't going to stay out of Walmart! That place is a one stop stealing paradise ~ got steak, with your diamonds?
“There’s a judge somewhere who is personally distraught ~ he knows he shouldn’t have let this woman go ~ she needed locked up. She’s dead and NOW THE POLICE OFFICER WILL have screwed up lives now due to his mistake.”
There, fixed it for you!!!