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The cop should have understood the level of distraughtness in the father. You’d think someone on the force for that long would know that.

He was injured and the father was punching him. Both men over-reacted.

Simply identifying himself as a cop doesn’t give him a pass from anything.

It should have been enough to stop the distraught father from beating an injured man. By refusing to stop, the man, had he not been killed, would have been subject to an additional criminal charge of assaulting an officer. Being distraught doesn't give you a pass to beat anyone, especially a cop.

Cops are not special, even though they and the contingent of JBT-loving boot-lickers here on FR think they are. Let ‘em eat donuts.

Your obvious hostility toward cops makes your argument a lot less persuasive. Put your animosity against the police aside for a moment and think about what happened. A 4-year-old runs into the road, as unsupervised little kids will do and the cop on his motorcycle lays it down in a desperate attempt to avoid hitting the child. He injures himself but goes to help the child. The father runs out of wherever he was and starts yelling and punching the cop. The cops tries to get him to back off by telling the father that he's a cop - to no avail. The cop then pulls out his gun and apparently this didn't faze the punching dad so the cop shoots the man and he dies. Tragic.

The child was apparently unsupervised, after being told he was a cop the father continued assaulting an officer, who was already injured from trying not to hit the child that ran in front of him and the cop used his gun to shoot - and kill - the father who was beating him. Yet it's the cops fault? Unless it can be shown that the cop was drunk or speeding or otherwise broke the law, I think not.

A 4-year-old runs into the road, as unsupervised little kids will do and the cop on his motorcycle lays it down in a desperate attempt to avoid hitting the child.

Well, except for the 4-year-old's 18-year-old cousin, who was holding her hand and who was ALSO hit by the motorcycle.

The child was apparently unsupervised, after being told he was a cop the father continued assaulting an officer, who was already injured from trying not to hit the child that ran in front of him and the cop used his gun to shoot - and kill - the father who was beating him. Yet it's the cops fault? Unless it can be shown that the cop was drunk or speeding or otherwise broke the law, I think not.

As we saw before, the child WAS supervised, by her 18-year-old cousin, who was holding her hand and who was ALSO hit by the motorcycle.

The police mouthpiece claims that the officer identified himself. The family claims that he did not. Police are allowed to lie to the peasantry as a matter of course.

Yes. The father and his assistant should not have been beating on the injured motorcycle guy. That, I can agree with.

Perhaps if more people understood they were probably going to get Trayvonned when they pulled their fists out, we'd have a gentler society.

Of course, the Merkun Police State doesn't help things when they: A) prosecute guys like George Zimmerman and B) won't let peasant motorcycle guys carry in places like Chicago.