No, but that is a judgment of the local police department to set performance standards and evaluate the officer against those standards. That is a problem caused by the police department and its administration. That still doesn’t make the officer a murderer, but she certainly could be incompetent with respect to on-the-street police duties.
I’m willing to let that be a question answered by the jury, just as any civilian in a similar situation would be facing. Police should not be treated as above the law in such situations or you run into an Ashli Babbitt situation.
Something else - this officer was *a department training officer* and had served 26 years. She *should* have been well enough trained and experienced enough that this should not have happened, since *she was the one training other officers.*
This was a training and leadership failure for sure, but the officer bears responsibility as well. The chief of her department has resigned as well, but before he left he stated that she completely violated training and policy.