Touche.
However, up until this incident, the person of whom we speak had a completely clear record. Given that, it would seem that the most likely interpretation of the empirical evidence (the "actions") is that he usually did give proper respect to lawful authority, and that the horrendous actions that ended his life were some sort of extreme aberration or uncharacteristic exercise of execrable judgement.
meaning the guy wacked out and got wacked.