But if they knew that he was 'over' why didn't they pop him with a T-dart, and take him to the nut house rather than head into a predictible gun fight?
At best it's some really bad police work, and more likely a leagalized snuffing.
I realize that some people are too paranoid to be carrying guns; some of my neighbors staged the re-make of the O-K corral out on a forrest service road near Twain Harte. - Now one is in the hospital, and the other is in jail, and all of it over their over-active, paranoid imaginations.