Charles, the only colored that mattered there was blue. To further illustrate, we had a similar case in MD where a cop shot a student. In this case, however, both the cop and the victim were black; what seem to happen was that the undercover cop tried to make an arrest, the guy got scared and rammed the cop's unmarked car, then the cop got scared and shot him.
Clerly it is the thin-blue-line mentality behind those incidents - the cult of police as superheroeas saving society from sundry villains (instead of being mere civil servants) coupled with poor training.
wojtek