The law dictates when it's okay to shoot people in self-defense. No person should receive special extra privileges to shoot people with a different standard.
The police do not legally have that right; but in practice they get to murder anyone they want and get away with it.
The rules for the police are very different than the rules for everyone else. That's due to inequality in the application of the law: the rules that apply to you and I do not apply to them.
Perhaps you, as many do, think the police should be in a special class of their own, above the law.
I think the laws should apply equally to all people.
Well. Yeah. That's the critical part isn't it...
So can cops shoot people only when you think it's ok?