Why do the police get a lower standard when they are forced to defend themselves?

“they draw their 9mm pistols and light him up”
you seem to inferring his is bigger than ours, justification for proceeding amongst a crowd of people. everything i have learned about discharging firearms, they violated coopers 4th law of gun safety. “Know what it (target) is, what is in line with it, and what is behind it”. yes, they are in a life threatening situation, but it seems they are more willing to put everyone elses life in jeopardy to save their own skin. not exactly heroic in my estimation, nor defensible.

as someone else mentioned above, nypd just killed an unarmed hostage recently, and also another responder crashed into a stopped vehicle causing injury to the passenger and himself responding to the same incident. more cowboy attitude.

being a cop isnt an easy task to be sure. however, the old ‘to serve and protect’ cops are only in the history books. i blame the above reactions on the recent (since 9/11) shift of the militarization of the police nationwide. the old maxim learned from a vietnam vet/marine i heard was ‘destroy, then search’ not the reverse. in full play now.

as to major bloomberg, too bad he wasnt there to be collateral damage. he deserves nothing less. a frightfully intellectually dishonest man. nuff said.

thank you for your insightful critique on this incident. your voice is one of truth in the wilderness of lies and misdirection that i would listen to.

ummm, yes… sans reloading