Not enough information here for cheering.
Were the officers CLEARLY identifiable as police?
Did they identify themselves as police?
Why did they follow for 30 minutes?
Were the usual red and blue lights used first?
Or did four men in dark clothes jump out of a vehicle that had been suspiciously following the couple for half an hour and run towards the couples’ car? In which case most people would think “bad guys attacking:.
The all too common plain “uniforms” with “ghosted” insignia don’t belong as part of civilian police uniforms.
What next? Just a POLICE ball cap as in the Soylent Green movie?
This does NOT meet my standards of a “good shoot”.It is too much like the Cleveland execution of the couple in the parked car justified because the police mistook a backfiring engine for gunshots.
This is the kind of police action that gives ammunition to the blacks who call for murdering police.
That is not what I consider a “police uniform”, they are BDUs. Dress like a soldier, and after a while you think you are one.
If a rational CCW licensed individual had someone follow him for 30 minutes, then have 4 men in non-nondescript dark clothing converge on his car in a parking lot, the end result would likely be the same.
There are proper and safer ways to initiate a felony stop, but then you don’t get to shoot your toys as much.
Not saying the guy wasn’t a dirtbag, but this is not a success story for LEOs.
“This is the kind of police action that gives ammunition to the blacks who call for murdering police.”
There is no “ammunition” for anyone to murder police. The “I was afraid for my life” excuse is wearing pretty damned thin these days, unless you’re an anarchist or a murderer to begin with.
Yeah, I always drive with TWO loaded guns in my car as a passenger. One isn’t enough for basic safety.
(Wish I didn’t have to, but for clarity’s sake I must, the above is sarcasm.)