Private autopsy claims Vonderrit Myers shot while fleeing

[KingCharlemagne]

109. The officer -- what was his name and badge number again? -- may have been

wearing a police uniform and driving a police vehicle. That's irrelevant as to whether Myers could see and understand that he was a police officer and not some brigand trying to stick him up. (That's giving the police the benefit of the doubt that Myers actually was armed and fired a weapon.)

If Myers did not know that the officer was a police officer -- for whatever reason -- then Myers was entitled to self defense, right? i mean, even the worst convicted offenders still have a right to self defense, don't they? Even if Myers was not legally entitled to be carrying a weapon, he still had a right to self-defense, right? Or do convicted defendants lose any right to defend themselves?

So here's the question(s): did the unnamed and unidentified officer identify himself to Myers as a police officer and did Myers understand that identification?