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ELB wrote: Most accounts said he was driving a "red sports car." There was one reference to it being a Corvette.

It does sound like Treptow's temper got the better of him, but I think the same is true of the cop, and he bears at least as much, and really, more, responsibility for behaving himself with a gun and a badge. I later read that when his felony indictment was dismissed, the case was referred to yet another jurisdiction for possible misdemeanor charges, but I've seen nothing further on that...

driving a Vette? yeah, that changes things a little bit.

and I agree completely. Higher standard, indeed.

I don't disagree with anyone here, but I would like to add something.

What, on Earth, was Teptow doing pulling his Type A, "I'm always right" Horse Hockey with two small children in the back seat?

defending your family is one thing, escalating a situation to deadly force is quite another.

I doubt VERY highly the "officer" identified himself, since it was suuuuuUUUUUUuuuuuch a big deal about keeping his "undercover identity" a secret.
I wonder if, because he was undercover, he was trying to perhaps "play up" what he believed his persona should be. I mean, he was driving an unmarked police car, otherwise known as a "Plain White Wrapper" by a trucker buddy of mine, so it's not like he was fooling anyone. But, I still hafta wonder if perhaps this "officer of the law" watched Donnie Darko one too many times...