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Police officers enjoy a higher status then average Americans. There are very few cases where an officer was found guilty for killing someone while on duty. Even in extreme cases like the one on the BART train where the officer pulled his pistol firing on a man thinking it was a taser the officer received only a year in prison. Certainly he should have received more.
If the man on top was not an officer but a concerned citizen then they would not have been cleared of the charges. So to say he was cleared of the charges we must make light of the fact the obvious difference between officers and civilians. Civilians have a far higher standard that they must meet in self defense situations whereas the officers bar is a low one.
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