The story is as follows: man commits crime and while driving to arrest man, patrolman dies. Man, who had nothing to do with patrolman’s death, gets convicted in patrolman’s death.
Equally asinine yet necessary example: I break into someone’s house. The police officer who is on his way to arrest me has a sudden un-explained heart attack. I am convicted of murder.
Or how about: Somebody commits a crime and while in the middle of doing their job, a police officer gets killed in a completely unrelated incident.
Either way, none of this makes sense. It’s all bullshit.
No matter what happens, the police officers involved are doing their job. They know the risks of doing their job. It’s not a tickling contest - it’s a job that involves the use of firearms, and the use of deadly force if necessary.
Should this man be convicted because one police officer couldn’t do his job? If my cab driver doesn’t know the directions to where he is supposed to take me, does he get a tip for driving me around for thirty unnecessary minutes while he gets lost? If a cook can’t cook, do we blame the person for whom they’re preparing the meal? If a fire burns down a house and the fire department on hand doesn’t know a thing about putting out flames, do we blame the home-owner for the fact that the FD didn’t know what the fuck they were doing?
So why should we blame someone for a completely unrelated incident other than the fact that the officer was doing nothing more than his job?
Is Missouri just filled with complete morons?