The problem is that the job has become almost impossible to do, thanks to the usual collection of militant pot heads, elderly hippies and liberal mouth breathers. Law enforcement today isn't what it used to be. Back in the good ol' days cops patrolled their towns, and though they dealt with the baddies - they dealt with good people too. Today, you put a man in a squad car, and all he does is go from fire to tragedy to crisis all day long. He never gets a break, he spends his days, his weeks and his years scraping dead idiot kids off the guard rails, telling their idiot parents the good news, taking dangerous creeps off the streets only to have some idiot judge put them back out there...nobody in their right mind would do a job like that. They would either quit or snap under the emotional strain.
I know about a half dozen retired cops. They all got out the second their pensions kicked in, they all absolutely forbade their kids from taking up the career, and not one of them recommends the job as a worthy career for the kids today.
I am not familiar with this case, but IMO if you are being stupid and using a firearm in a dangerous manner around a cop...then yeah, you deserve a kick in the face. If you did it in my proximity you would have gotten two slugs in the chest and one in the pan for your efforts.
At the rate you people are going, you will not be worth defending at all. Our cops get no benefit of the doubt, the perp gets every benefit of the doubt, and an essentially harmless "boot to the face" of an armed and dangerous perp becomes an excuse for stupid people to hang a man who puts it on the line every day trying to defend them.
My guess, JLM, is that ultimately, we will have the police force folks like you deserve.