You know what’s fucked up? What the jumper was threatening (suicide) was a crime. What the police did was not (not in practice, anyway.)
Sure, it’s technically a crime for them to shoot the guy, but one of them saw he was reaching for a gun. The police are protected so thoroughly by our broken justice system, that it would be largely an uphill battle to argue they deserve consequences for killing a “criminal”.
You know what’s fucked up? What the jumper was threatening (suicide) was a crime. What the police did was not (not in practice, anyway.)
Sure, it’s technically a crime for them to shoot the guy, but one of them saw he was reaching for a gun. The police are protected so thoroughly by our broken justice system, that it would be largely an uphill battle to argue they deserve consequences for killing a “criminal”.