I wonder if you would be so blase about it if the clerk in question were your son. My daughter at one point took a second job as a clerk in a convenience store. I hated it. It wasn't that long before or far away that 2 young women clerks had been shot and killed in the commission of a robbery in a store of the same chain. In my opinion, it was a wreckless move by the police and I would have had no sympathy whatsoever for them had this episode resulted in the death of the clerk. The best I can do as it is is to give them the benefit of the doubt based on the possibility that perhaps they weren't smart enough to come up with a better plan. People who think that because they're cops they can do no wrong and their judgement shouldn't be questioned scare me. It is a pretty well-known fact that cops are not hired based on their high IQ's. I don't mean that as a put down. I am in support of cops who are decent people trying to do a good job of protecting citizens, but sadly, I think that the police force tends to attract a lot of the types that have a different agenda or an ax to grind and seek an outlet that empowers them to act on it.