This whole line of debate seems pointless.
One side thinks cops can do no wrong, no matter what they do, and the other thinks cops can do no right.
The cops are claiming somehow that their mistake makes it OK that they ended up shooting an innocent man and roughed up an old woman. Its understandable why that position would ruffle a few feathers.
Cops think average citizens should obey police orders or be subject to whatever force the officers on the scene deem appropriate. Average citizens mostly just want to be left alone and resent being ordered around like serfs by supposed public servants.
Some how, some way, we as a society are going to have to deal with this divide between what police see as reasonable police conduct and what the average citizen sees as reasonable.
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