You can debate the need to arrest, but creating a ruse that ends up with the man being shot several times?

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    Agreed. It’s likely that the cops set the conditions for this to happen; maybe not consciously, but still.

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      Absolutely, and for many cops, it’s not even subconscious. They enjoy confrontational situations where they have every advantage of law, gunpower, steroids, and the ever-present public perception that they’re good guys no matter what.