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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (265150)	11/25/2014 6:21:09 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542248

I suspect he feels he did the correct thing. So my guess is he isn't too tormented- at least I hope he isn't. When you do your best, and you act reasonable, I'm not sure why you should feel tortured. The torture that he will feel going forward will probably mostly be from external sources who feel they should be judge and jury- since a grand jury did not give them what they wanted. I have no doubt that those people will make his life unpleasant. But that's hardly his fault. Since you carry, you may quite easily be put in a similar position- but you won't have the protection of being a policeman. Nor will you have their training- I'd assume. Unless you have been trained in a police academy. One of the problems in our society is that we outsource so much of our violence to the police and the military, and then we are shocked, SHOCKED, when they aren't choirboys, and they don't always make the right decisions. I'd love to see the people who criticize the cops put in uniform and sent out on the streets. Why? Empathy. For some reason a lot of folks in our society have lots of empathy for perpetrators, but not much for the police. Not sure why that is.