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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)resisting arrest, endangering a child, and according to reports engaged in a gun battle with police attempting to protect the child and arrest him for alleged crimes. Pursuant to an attempt by the police to return the child in Dykes possession to the child's family, he resisted officers of the law, who, with reasonable cause, shot him in a gun battle in a hidden bunker now known to have been bobby-trapped with explosives.
In the cases you mentioned, all of those men and women were involved actively in crimes and the taking of lives, and were being sought by the police, either with active warrants or using probable cause. (Whitman was shooting people from the Texas Bell Tower.)
What analogy are you trying to make with these issues of law enforcement?