Do you typically sympathize with people of any occupation traveling at such unsafe speeds that their only recourse is to bail from their vehicle in the hopes it will miss or directly hit a child with said vehicle?
How fast was the rider going? Please tell me, because it isn’t in the stories I read, but you obviously have more info, so please share it.
What is the speed limit on that road? Do you know?
Do you know how far away the motorcycle was when the child appeared in front of him?
Did the child walk out in the road alone, or in concert with the supposed 18 year old relative?
Do you know the traffic in the road, cars parked along the side, the road conditions?
Do you know anything?
I ask these questions, because this is your thread. You posted this, with the only information being provided NOT including any of the above questions I asked. You didn’t even provide a key element, the race of the victim and the race of the person defending themselves.
If you intended people to fly off the handle with insufficient information, nice job, you succeeded. Most of us likely don’t have the info at our fingertips that perhaps YOU have, but neglected to provide us. And I am being generous assuming you have information we don’t.
The way some people are, the fact that he is a cop and a municipal employee and a union member makes him fair game for vitriol.
So, which are you? Ignorant and irresponsible, or someone with an agenda trying to fan the flames of irrational anger?
There are only two choices here.