1) The officer we acquitted. Therefore, the headline is completely false. Police did not "murder" this man. A jury of his peers acquitted him of murder. Therefore, the headline should read "Police Shot This..."
2) Many details are not included in the story, including the parts about the pellet guns, which - for all the police knew - were real guns at that time.
3) Why did the police have the suspects crawl forward? Seriously? How is this NOT obvious? The suspects just walked out of the room. The police ask SEVERAL times who else is in the room. They clearly do not believe that the room is empty. The unedited video continues with them checking out the room to determine if it is, in fact, empty. So, OBVIOUSLY, the police did not wish to move forward towards the open door where they had NO idea what lurked inside. They wanted the suspects to move away so they could be detained, THEN check out the room.
4) All that being said, I'm rather sick of this manner of policing. This is ultimately not acceptable. Police are lacking good judgment. And, for the record, if that happened with a soldier and an unarmed Afghani, the soldier would be court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. MAKE NO MISTAKE. How is it that we hold our war fighters to a higher standard than our civilian police force?
Enough is enough.