If I am just walking down the street, and some cop starts shooting, or some man/woman dressed like a cop, I don't have the right to defend myself?
What the cop did, he had to do. I don't like that he shot the kid in the head (I think a wiser choice on part of the cop would be to shoot the kid in the chest, towards the right lung). But the cop could not take the chance that the gun was fake.
Also, like some said, the articles that have come out were a little fishy.
And there are such things are crooked cops (Miami Beach, Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans).
"If I am just walking down the street, and some cop starts shooting, or some man/woman dressed like a cop, I don't have the right to defend myself?"
Yes, you do.
But LibertarianCandidate apparently has reason to believe the cops will be aiming their weapons at him. Now, the only reason I can think of for a police officer to aim a weapon at someone is a reasonable belief that the target's behavior poses an imminent danger to life and limb.
"I don't like that he shot the kid in the head (I think a wiser choice on part of the cop would be to shoot the kid in the chest, towards the right lung)."
Son, that may work in Hollyweird. In real life, the cop aims at center mass. Sometimes, when aiming at center mass, the round goes high.
(Note: I was a cop for a few years in the early 1970s before I got invalided out.)