If a cop is told you are violent or have a gun or has a REASONABLE suspicion you have a gun, you have to follow the cops commands and not run or reach to your belt line.
So the falsely accused aren't allowed to be fearful for their lives? Especially if they happen to hear multiple stories of people fitting their skin color being shot and killed under false pretense? Or even shot and killed despite following cop commands? After a while one could start to suspect compliance isn't enough to save them.
That's not to say "Never listen to cops", but you seem to be forgetting that suspects are also human as well. They're allowed to be scared, and people tend to panic when they're scared. The difference is that most suspects don't have multiple friends with guns out.
Corrik posted...
The problem is that everyone wants perfection from cops and it is unrealistic.
No, people want cops to be held to standards. No one's perfect, but it seems like a cop is allowed to fuck up and get away with it because "Well I was scared". Switch it around. A civilian accidentally shoots a cop because they were scared for their life. I don't think such a scenario would ever result in a "not guilty".
Cops should be held to higher standards, but it seems like they're held to lower standards. It makes no sense.
You can do whatever you want to do. One just gets you out of the situation alive and one may not. And it would be not be the cops fault in the situation. He is just doing his job with the information at hand to the best of his abilities. ---