I was quite baffled by the reporters' comments - "was it necessary to use so much force against someone who was drunk and had mental problems?" Well, pardon me if I think a man with a gun is all the more likely to be dangerous if he's drunk and addled in the head. And frankly anyone who points a gun in the general direction of armed police is asking for trouble. As you say, if he hadn't been a posh barrister there'd have been none of this fuss.