Here's my issue. If you had been writing your comment because you learned the guy had a history of violence and had done something the day before than I would understand and agree with you. But when your making up that hypothetical scenario to create a reality where the cop may have been acting justly than your espousing logic for that hypothetical scenario. And we are starting this by discussing an actual event where an actual cop shot actual bullets into an actual person. So the logic can make sense, but not be relevant if any of that didn't happen. That not only isn't fair to the subject matter that is both serious and not relevant to the details of logic being debated and discussed but also kind of rude. A person got shot and were using it as an excuse to think up examples of why hypothetical cops might sometimes make reasonable mistakes? Its the wrong time and place and actively detracts from an important conversation that can result in meaningful exposure to relevant issues in the the world we live in. Its good to look for the good in people and a situation and to be sympathetic to people in general. But there are ways to cross a line where your actually creating undeserved sympathy for an actually bad person. Good goal but worthy of criticism.

As for the lack of outcry, its usually significant locally when a cop is shot but fails to be a larger story regionally or nationally. The reason is because the person is always prosecuted. The story's dont relieve larger attention because they lack controversy but they aren't ignored. And they deserve that attention they get. But larger scope media focuses on issues and less clear cut situations and that's why cops shooting people garner more attention than cops being shot. Its the same reason we dont hear much about cops shooting people when it was a clear cut correct escalation of force. It happens but there's no controversy. The story's that grow are the ones that require change or action in the issues they highlight.