"I want to believe that the cops were in the right, but as the story stands now, I think they messed up, not that the guys who got shot didn't as well. Stopping to reload seems a bit extreme."
Let me see if I get this straight, Mockingbyrd. You'd be much happier if the cops all wore uniforms, i.e., they would never be able to perform this type of undercover operation.
You'd also be happier if they were not allowed to reload their weapons, i.e., they get shot to death while the perps reload their weapons.
You have some great ideas there, Sparrow.
"You'd also be happier if they were not allowed to reload their weapons"
Perps had no weapons, so in this case, stopping to reload does seem a bit extreme. As a woman in a big city, I can understand not trusting some guy who approaches my car announcing that he's a police officer. See around here, we just had two guys arrested for doing just that. Announcing they were police officers, flashing some sort of badge and then raping women.