A hypothetical.
Let’s assume his mom had called the cops in to deal with Adam Lanza.
He gets shot and killed, much as Jake did.
The cops are excoriated for killing a harmless bit-talking teenager off his meds.
But Lanza never shows up at Sandy Hook School. Dozens of children and adults survice, never knowing the bullet that missed them.
Would also like to note that German cops kill Germans at a rate 40x that at which American cops kill Americans.
While America certainly isn’t Germany, the disproportion is not fully explained by the difference in crime rate.
We don’t have to believe the cops necessarily acted wrongly in this case or in Ferguson to recognize that perhaps there is a way they can do their job without killing so many Americans.
That’s the very sort of situation I was thinking of.