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So - how do you neatly separate the subjects in an atrocity? An American man and father was in effect, murdered by a criminal who used the blunt object of the police to kill him.

You figure that only talking about one half of the subject is sufficient? Will you finally be concerned when you're the next victim?

In 1968, when I had just been released from an almost year-long stay in the hospital for gunshot wounds I had from combat in Vietnam, I was pulled over by a LAPD cop. For some reason, he mistook my car for the car of a reported armed robber. Before I had time to even understand what was happening, he had my door open and was pulling me from the driver's seat with a 12 gauge in my face and he was in a high state of agitation. It was a close thing. Another innocent guy across the city was pulled over the same way and shot to death because they thought he was the robber they were looking for. He wasn't.

Police cannot and must not be a blind weapon that can kill without consequences, even when just called into action by a sick bastard who wants to cause trouble.