The guy was shot twice, I’ll assume that showed some restraint (vs 6 or 15 rounds to the now-dead citizen) - but in any case, I would hate to be put in that situation.
Which, of course, is why I am not tree fuzz.
Final note, we had a pol up here busted for taking a few bucs under the table, he got 5 years in a FedGov pen. Makes ya wonder about what is valued.
I think in the case of the politician, it was clear that he had knowingly done something very wrong when he had plenty of time to think about it, and it was reasonably assumed that this wasn’t the first time he’d done it nor the last time he was planning to. In my book, a corrupt politician is a much more serious problem than a too-easily-panicked park ranger who makes one very wrong, but not ill-intentioned split-second decision about how to handle a belligerent drunk.