How U.S. laws foster police brutality

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2. It creates a situation in which an officer, with intent to murder, can stack the deck to escalate

Step one: Officer decides to, how should we put this delicately, "go hunting"
Step two: Officer identifies intended victim
Step three: Officer harasses/threatens/otherwise provokes victim. If victim remains calm, continue escalating until a reaction is provoked.
Step four: "Stop resisting!" Execute victim. And because the escalations in step three are excluded by the courts, the officer has immunity.

If anyone without a badge did that, it would be an aggravating factor in first-degree murder. But it gets cops completely off the hook, thereby making modern day lynching and other assorted extra-judicial execution perfectly legal.