[Altariel]

None whatsoever. Most likely, the officer approached with gun drawn and Mr. Jones thought he was about to be robbed or murdered.

[SaveFerris]

That may well be. Boy, you hate to hear about stuff like this. Tragic, tragic, tragic.

[Above My Pay Grade]

That is my theory as well. Jones didn’t realize the man in plain clothes in an unmarked car was a cop and drew his gun to protect himself from what he thought was an attacker.

[PapaBear3625]

None whatsoever. Most likely, the officer approached with gun drawn and Mr. Jones thought he was about to be robbed or murdered.

We had an incident near me a few years back, where a girl whose car was broken down on the highway was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a man pretending to be a plainclothes cop.

If the cop is not in uniform, and his vehicle does not have blue and red cop-lights, then he should be forbidden to approach motorists, who can quite reasonably think he's a robber.

[Iscool]

None whatsoever. Most likely, the officer approached with gun drawn and Mr. Jones thought he was about to be robbed or murdered.

Exactly...The cop should have called a marked car...He was off duty, probably saw an opportunity to pick up some unscheduled overtime pay...Negligence on his part...And it doesn't say if the cop was drunk...They probably never checked...