“Our Instructors always emphasized AVOIDING a conflict”
Powell was obviously actively trying to create a lethal conflict leading to his own demise.
You’re suffering from the cognitive dissonance of “there MUST have been another way!”
Sure, your instructors emphasized avoiding conflict; they also taught you at length how to engage in conflict resulting in great harm to your opponent.
That's the standard excuse cops use to justify whatever brutality they decide to dish out. We had to face that ugly truth firsthand.
Cops lied on the stand after withholding video and audio evidence during an illegal forced entry into my daughter's home without a warrant. To cover the fact they acted illegally, they both charged my youngest (20 years old) with 'assaulting a police officer'. Evidence showed both cops lied about it - and the case was thrown out of court after a year of hell.
We were told this is S.O.P. procedure and that was admitted to on the stand. Cops said they have the 'legal right' to do anything to 'affect an arrest', including incitement or falsifying and altering police reports to justify unlawful acts.
You’re suffering from the cognitive dissonance of “there MUST have been another way!”
At one time, not long ago - there used to be. Now the policy is for cops to empty their guns into a perp or a dog if they 'feel threatened'.
Sure, your instructors emphasized avoiding conflict; they also taught you at length how to engage in conflict resulting in great harm to your opponent.
Not lethality. We were not trained to empty our guns into someone holding a knife high on something. Tasers mace and batons give an edge to TWO COPS and one perp. But since we are growning desensitized and indeed justify cops shooting to kill as a matter of S.O.P., we admit we like living in a police state.