One of my good pals is a police officer, and through him, I've met qite a few. I admit, that for the most part, they're not my kind of people, and some of them are just plain thick. A couple have even said "I'm in it for the action, which made me laugh. However, that doesn't mean that they're all blood thirsty nut jobs who can't wait to gun people down, or beat them to death in a cell. I'm not a big fan of the police, I don't like how they do a lot of things, and I believe that they watch out for each other, and cover things up. HOWEVER, I don't think they're rotten to the core, and I suspect that when the details of this incident come out, they will show that they had little choice but to put this guy down.