This guy has no business being a cop
I disagree. This shows the public exactly why cops shoot "unarmed" people. He took one for the team. Maybe now the media (if they have *any* intelligence whatsoever) will give the benefit of the doubt to the cop.
And yes--I do know they have no intelligence. But maybe the public does
You're ignoring the problem.
I can see a cop having strong second thoughts about anything they do. To put it in military terms, the ROE's have become a lot tighter - although ROE's for cops seem now to be set by the media and politicians, making them even that much less clear.
Extremely stupid thing to say. I know of course that TJ Hooker never loses a fight. Reality on the roadside can be very different.
Unless of course you believe that have any business being a cop, one must willingly and cheerfully ignore the near certainty of having your life destroyed if you shoot a black, no matter what they are doing.
The way I see it, he thought it was better to take his chances with that criminal not executing him than it was to trust that society would back him up.
SO more accurately, society doesn’t deserve a cop like him.