Sanity, we need you now.
Via National Review:
Capital murder charges conform to the slanderous anti-cop narrative, not the facts in this case.
If you broadcast that you are willing to be bullied, then you invite the mob to rule. When the mob rules, you get brass-knuckles politics, not justice.You get a hyper-political county prosecutor, under the corruption microscope as he desperately seeks reelection, filing trumped-up, mob-driven charges before the actual investigators have a chance to finish their work.
You get a capital murder charge against a police officer who returned fire after being shot at with a taser by a fleeing suspect.
A taser that the fleeing suspect, a criminal with a violent history, stole from the police while they attempted to arrest him on a well-founded charge.