Heard about this yesterday. Sadly, things like this are not isolated cases. What is wrong with officers who think they can open fire in that manner and take the life of someone who was not a threat?!
And I bet hardly anything will be done to the one who took the shot. Officers have been allowed to go back to duty after gunning people down before. They also seem to think it's alright to force women to strip at gunpoint. It's appalling., sick and disgusting. They have too much power and seem to be able to hide easily when something like this happens.
It makes me wonder what sort of people they are letting into the police when incidents like this happen. They should be stricter about who they let in and have harsher punishments.
It doesn't help that police officers are usually edgy especially considering that certain places like the US and Russia are often targets of outrageous crimes. There are good cops, but there's not enough of them and I'm assuming that governments would rather have strict although twitchy cops, the "bad" cops, than nice, tolerant, but too good for anyone's safety cops, the good cops. Russian cops as far as I'm aware are much heavily armed than cops in the US. They have access to carbines, heavier armor, and other stuff that the US doesn't really equip cops with. Though it probably has changed, I think US cops only have pistols, semi-automatic rifles, and shotguns along with standard armor. SWAT, on the other hand, are better geared along with many militias. The fact that weapons are easily acquired and criminals have been running around with LMGs, SMGs, and other military-grade weapons probably puts more stress on US cops compared to other cops. Russian cops are evening the match. Cops in South America and Mexico are basically the military at this point considering drug cartels have shown access to Humvees, LMGs, explosives, etc.
Also, it's dependent on the places too. I don't think I have ever heard of stuff like this coming from Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, and even Japan where cops don't have guns unless it's completely necessary. Pretty much everything is handled using quick submissions unless of course, someone's shooting people up, then they'd probably call for armed forces. Most of the horrific crimes I remember from Japan were knife crimes which I think the UK has more than gun crimes since guns aren't readily available compared to the US. Anyway, maybe it's because those places have more stable governments or people just like living there more than everywhere else. South America, parts of Asia, parts of the Middle East, Africa are places where there's corruption, poverty, and generally anguished populations who probably would resort to crime to survive or violence as a means to solve a corrupt government or something.
Anyway, I think this boils down to the world being mad. There was never a time in this world where it was calm. We just live in a mad world.
Still, incidents like this usually leads to people hating cops which leads to cop-killings and retaliations. It might even result in cops completely unrelated getting killed because some other crap cop did something stupid. Some of them are just doing their jobs. Some are actually nice cops. Some are corrupt and some are actually bad cops, but most are probably afraid. Nobody knows what could happen and one wrong move could make things go horribly. Usually, there's millions of wrong moves and possibly no right move. In this case, I have no idea what the hell happened. Apparently there was no warning at all before he was shot, that's not something like seeing a guy put his hands into his pocket and trying to pull something out. That's justifiable, this one isn't.