we all know, or OUGHT to know, that building a police force is a hard thing to do...you need officers who have courage and ability to BE out on the street, but you want to avoid the ones who just like to carry a gun and intimidate people. The latter type apply a LOT, and many get by the psychological profiling and GET to carry that gun!...and they learn quickly how to justify whatever they do...and few police will criticize another officer.I do NOT know if this incident was over-reaction or not, and if I were on a dark street where the bad guys did often have guns, I might make mistakes too--but there sure needs to be some way to weed out cops who abuse the badge BEFORE they do harm.