60 year old men usually have some hearing loss for quick word recognition from behind.
Roid rage and "officer safety" would explain the shooting, and the seriously low performance in thinking and shooting skills are standard for the "new cops", no longer Peace Officers.
Cowardice explains the rest.
It may be time to disarm cops.
Here’s a comforting quote from Sheriff David Morgan’s press conference:
“As much as we are trained and as much as officers - which have Type A personalities - like to say we are in control, we are not,” Morgan said.
Yes, combined with the fact that the fellow's head was *inside* his car when the cops approached. They probably startled him and he reacted normally. The cops didn't anticipate this reaction and opened fire in response.
Any untrained group of morons could have done that, which raises serious questions about today's law-enforcement training programs. Not just this sheriff's departmental training, but the standardized curriculum as offered by places such as Herzing College or University of Phoenix.
And then there's the issue of "first-person-shooter" video games being tweaked and used as police "training tools". We always see comments about these games influencing the kids who go postal on their classmates, but the same sort of video-based training can desensitize cops just as easily.