Officer shot, killed by fellow police in Calif.

[Brian4Liberty]

They're kind of vague about it, but they mentioned witness intimidation. It could be that he had been threatening people not to talk, in which case you can't wait until his shift is over and he goes to settle business with whoever he was threatening, while still in uniform. Would look very very bad.

That was their reasoning. Sounds like someone turned him in and he might go get revenge. Maybe the father? Their reasoning that he was armed and dangerous turned out to be accurate. Arresting cops is always dangerous.

He said he could not give details because of the sensitivity of the investigation, but "there was some witness intimidation involved" and the arrest couldn't wait for a more proper time or place.

"The information that we had in hand demanded that we not let him leave that scene, get in a car, drive somewhere, it would put the public at risk," Macagni said at the news conference. "We just did not know what was going to happen, we did not expect him to react the way that he did."