About 30 years ago I was perusing the mags at a 7-11 in CO. Unbeknownst to me I perfectly matched the description of a guy who had escaped the NM pen a couple days earlier, and had since murdered two convenience store clerks and a cop.
Clerk called it in, again quite without my awareness.
Somebody came through the door behind me. Next thing I knew I had a shotgun in my neck, and half a second later I was on the ground with my hands cuffed behind me.
Had I made a wrong move when they came in, they almost certainly would have blown my head off and then apologized to my wife and daughter. And by any logical standard they would have been entirely justified to do so.
It’s like these stories about the cops killing someone acting aggressively crazy because he’s off his meds. How are the cops supposed to know he’s quite and gentle when he’s had them? Why should it make any difference?
However, I don’t know enough about this particular case to comment on whether the cops were in the right.
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