I think you&#x27;re making the mistake of thinking that, where there&#x27;s a conflict between two parties, discovering that one party was negligent always reduces the other party&#x27;s culpability, as if fault was a conserved quantity to be distributed around.  But the law (and morality) aren&#x27;t like this.  In this case, the fact that this guy was <i>foolish</i> does nothing to reduce the wrongness of the police actions here, which is what everyone gets so outraged about.