But if he doesn’t say immediately, “I felt threatened’” then juries are free consider the evidence.
Cops have been mistrained in two basic issues. Number one: They are taught that they are allowed to do anything necessary in order to make sure that “at the end of their shift they are not dead.” Really? In days of yore it was an unspoken credo that cops would do everything within their power to not kill, even to the point of risking their own life. And two: Cops are taught to assume that everyone is a potential threat. This is obviously not true, but it leads them to look at what we would consider to be a normal circumstance and give it the imprimatur of evil.