It probably does not help that in this instance the Los Angeles Times has reported that the occupants of the truck were SUSPECTED of drug running but that no drugs were found after the incident.
Lots of stuff for an inclined politician to use against the police in that outcome.
As stated above policing in the UK and Texas are worlds apart but if shooting was acceptable punishment for just running away I will have had over 50 instances on my hands so perhaps it was a good job they only gave me a lump of wood to protect myself - and hand out retribution.
A world apart.