Empire State building shooting: Cops fire 16 rounds and injure 9, kill shooter

Quote from Danman114 : Really? Really? Your saying the law says two people can't attempt to stop a person who just shot another person in the head? And that if those two people approached this murderer, asked him to stop, and the murderer drew their weapon, and the CW carrier fired first, that the soon to be dead person could claim 'self defense'? Is there any successful case of this in the history of the US you can cite? I don't think there is because it's absurd on its face.

What I am saying is there liabilities are much higher. The CWW carriers are much more likely to end up in jail that Law Enforcement personnel
What I said, and what you seem totally unaware of is that officers of the court and law enforcement officers have different set of laws and regulations regarding their responsibility to arrest or intervene in a crime and as well as different tests should anyone be harmed when they do so.
Why don't you look up some basic US legal cites on things like citizens arrests etc. LEO personnel and citizens have a very different set of rules.
The CWW person has the ability to intervene, but not the obligation, and according to all US law higher tests and more criminal liability. More important, a CWW cant identify themselves as a police officer and does not have the same amount of training in assessing the likelihood of the perpetrator having committed the crime. The average CWW has no experience in the evidence tests for example,

Why is that relevant, well because if I am a third party in your scenario, and see you, (a well meaning CWW person in your scenario) shooting the perpetrator, and I not having seen the first shooting, turn and raise my gun at you and order not to fire at the murderer, and you respond by starting to bring your weapon to bear on me, you are saying I can legally shoot you. Right?

What is interesting is you say you are CWW, and some CWW people here have claimed that CWW are as well or better trained than the cops, you you have no idea whatsoever of the actual laws and why they are there.