I think the whole society is going down the crapper. We have a guy on this thread who says he’ll beat anybody who so much as spits on him senseless, claims he is not a cop but sure acts like one.
Hey, I understand totally how being spit upon would make you see red. Throwing a punch -- which I'm pretty sure is all LowOil said he'd do, as a response is pretty tempting. But killing? You have to be flat crazy to kill somebody when you don't have to.
In any case, I'll bet the last two squirrelly kids or bent middle-age crisis dudes who went temporarily nuts and tried to outrun the cops and ended up getting shot dead for it, would a lot rather have had the cops spitting at them than shooting lead at them. And so would their family and loved ones.