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Because the shooter is not an officer that is sworn to protect and serve the public. You're tossing out a false equivalency here.
Law Enforcement in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. Widespread patterns of abuse of power, racial profiling, corruption and excessive force. This is blanketed by flawed systems that shield officers from consequence (qualified immunity, police unions, the whole concept of the thin blue line). Plus, cops get asked to do too much. Mental health, civil issues, code issues, medical issues. That's too much, it puts officers in situations that they shouldn't realistically be in. Then there's the militarization of police. Both equipment and training/outlook. When you spend hours telling people that they're fierce predators that are the only warriors that can handle the mad killers that are out for innocent blood, then you kit them up like they're hitting Falujah... there's only one way that's going to go.
I hope this helped show some perspective