"Tantamount to murder in my view our police are not above the law ."
Yes.
These police officers breached police protocol. Even if they are later reprimanded, it is not going to bring back the life taken away by their actions.
We have seen too many of these trigger happy behaviour from some police officers. The NSW state government should take urgent actions to overhaul such police behaviour and culture.
One area I would like to see implemented is to increase the entry requirements to get better police cadets, and we should our police officers well.