Cops acted wrong in arrest and killing of Manuel Páez

Records of the arrest — and killing — of "Cop City" protester Manuel Páez show that the cops acted dangerously wrong, in several ways.

They started by not wearing body cameras, which suggests they were preparing to cover something up. After meeting Páez, they shot first at him as he hid in his tent.

Those first shots were less-often-lethal "pepper balls", rather than bullets, but one can hardly blame Páez for not knowing that. He must have thought they were shooting to kill him. In moral terms, they started the shooting, and spoke a deceptive half-truth when they claimed he started it.

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