What you’re missing is that this officer was running out of control even before he encountered anyone at the scene. When he first arrived at the location, he ran onto the scene with a movie-style “tumble” of some kind (watch the video, hard to describe how comical it was), and then started running at people. Before anything else.
And yes, he got home safely. But so did every other officer at the scene, without resorting to the same idiocy.
The video I saw started with him trying to arrest a woman who was clearly resisting arrest, then two morons ran toward him and he was clearly threatened by their apparent attack. If he was stupid then the smart thing to do is to back off and not make the situation worse. My brother is a deputy sheriff, and let me tell you there is a palpable fear out there. The police officers in this country are wound tight, and the tension they feel is real. The cops feel as if they are under attack by our own government, they will make mistakes. Fear makes fool of everybody. I did not see anything in the video that would justify those two idiots to rush at this officer. And I am not ashamed to say that if I was in that situation there would be two less men in the world. My DI said when in doubt don’t hesitate and kill them all. He made it through three wars and was the smartest man I ever met. I am not brave enough to be a cop. I have been a victim, never again.