re: Police in Wash. Shoot Man Running From them with a rock in his hands.

And they may not. Their population is only about 67k per Wiki and I honestly don't know how much that would play into that.

All that said, the "OMG COPS ARE AWFUL" crowd certainly doesn't seem to be able to come up with any reasonable solutions to combating things like this that happens other than the cops should just take any abuse that comes their way and not allow them to enforce the law. I look at a current situation in our district where a kid had to be restrained because he knocked the SRO to the ground (he claims he was "playing") and when the SRO restrained him for it, it turned into an assault charge against the officer and a lawsuit because the parents are claiming brain damage. And those are teenagers who don't think twice about physically assaulting a cop.

My guess is when they see that shite day in and day out then you're going to end up with incidents like this. Now is that a cop problem or a symptom of a society that fosters a complete disregard for authority?