” I’m writing clear, cogent sentences. “
An opinion, a self serving one.
Arrest is to stop. He was stopped. That is clear. And cogent.
My post was not “babbling” by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t always express my ideas well, but I’ve written clearly and cogently enough to earn my living as a writer for thirty years.
There are other ways of stopping people besides shooting them. For a person to use deadly force, there needs to be explicit authorization, as in the Texas law, or as in self-defense laws. Gerlach himself didn’t say he was making an arrest. He “...told the jury that he shot because he believed if he didn’t, he would have been killed. ‘I thought I had to shoot to stop a threat that was in front of me,’ Gerlach said.”