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I agree that police are protected by policy. Stay within policy guidelines, apply common sense, and we the public will stand behind you. I get puzzled when folks look at a dark video of a police officer standing by himself at the end of a high speed pursuit and instantly judge him. Based on the evidence provided, I agree it looks bad for the officers judgment but I wasn't there. These police officers are our sons and daughters, we hire them, train them, and place them in harms way. Then when the MSM says "look at the horrible police" we trust the MSM opinion and jump on the officer like Pirhanna feeding on a rat. We owe the officers the benefit of a fair hearing without the biases pronounced on them by the MSM. The red flag here is the MSM constantly playing the lead that a "soldier" was shot by a cop. If you doubt the credibility of the MSM, you should always doubt it, not just when it suits your purpose.

I like your post about withholding judgement. It's not entirely clear to me that the cop who shot was the same as the one who said: "get up" or that what was said was: "get up". I can't understand why the airman was talking or moving at all (knowing what he knows as an SP) and how his being an "airman" is at all pertinent to the situation other than being an embarassment to the Service. No matter the outcome, I can't imagine his CO is going to be very happy with him.

Having said all that, it seems like a situation where the cop should have used phyisical restraint rather than deadly force. Can LEO Freepers comment on that?