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I think the cop should absolutely be ~~fired~~ prosecuted, but I don't think police shootings are to "justify the need" for police officers to keep their jobs.
That doesn't even make sense: police officers involved in shootings are likely to be investigated by IA, which is compounded stress ontop of a job that probably already sucks, who's possibly even pushed out of the force by IA, and if the shooting an officer was involved in was in fact justified (not this one) you're left with an officer who's unfit mentally and will likely feel some guilt for the rest of their lives.
In the world you think we live in, encouraging police shootings because it "justifies" a need for police leaves you with a bunch of underperforming and mentally unstable bunch of police officers and a forever staggering rate of total police officers and their presence in neighborhoods where they're actually needed; as people will resign and no new officers will replace them.
Excuse me, fired? They should be prosecuted. They murdered someone for no reason. That is a murder. Murder is not allowed. Killing someone in self defense isn't a murder, but this clearly was.
This police officer deserves to be reprimanded the way any citizen would be for shooting and killing someone without just cause.
Sorry, I agree. I don't know why I simply said "fired."