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However with respect to this incident there is no clean easyway out.

An easy way out would be to prosecute Harwood for manslaughter and let the case be heard in court.

However, I can't get my head around any possible good that can occur from this.

A dangerously aggressive person in a position of power would be removed from that position and a message would be sent out to other officers that they are not above the law.

Harwwood is/was a police officer. One would assume from that very title that he is a responsible individual with no criminal record.

All first time killers, rapists, murderers, thieves, vandal (etc etc) have no previous criminal record - we don't judge cases on whether the accused have a previous criminal record (in fact we go out of or way to keep this out of proceedings) we prosecute a case of what the person is accused of not their history.

The idea that he intended to cause death is not even suggested (hence his being charged with 'manslaughter'). We need to stand back a little as individuals, take our heads out of the dizzying clouds of media hype and group opinion and realise that an upstanding member of society (at least as we can assume) was put in a situation in which he caused the death of another human being

I'd say he was not 'upstanding', this is evidenced by his unprovoked (and ultimately deadly) attack on an innocent civilian.

Your stuff about 'heads in clouds' and 'group opinion' is just silly and fallacious poisoning of the well.