No, we have to get THEM past this bit about their safety "trumping" our rights.
If they can't act in accordance with that dictate, they need to find another line of work.
Can you imagine firefighters all telling each other "the most important thing is that I get home safely tonight."?
Do not recall any guarantee about my safety when I enlisted, either.
Cops must be special because they get to go home each night? GIs just have to suck it up as their lives are not so special?
“Can you imagine firefighters all telling each other “the most important thing is that I get home safely tonight.”?”
NO I can’t, but then FF’s don’t have guns either! The LEO’s need to start putting themselves under the same laws they enforce on the rest of us. CA Penal Code Section 417 makes NO DISTINCTION for cops when it comes to “brandishing a gun.” This guy needs to go to jail for what he did, just like you or I would. I shudder to think what might have happened if the citizen had, in fact, pulled his hand out of his pocket too fast.