"He's trying to assist this lady whose car is being stolen," Jackson told KSL-TV (
http://bit.ly/1QaDe1v ). "He was fighting with her. He was trying to protect her. Then at the point the suspect comes to him, and he's trying to take the gun from him, then he's trying to protect himself."
Elevated in rank and chosen as the officer most qualified to deliver a statement to the press: Captain Ned Jackson, folks. Dude ought to be monging his way through a Special Olympics race, not running a fucking precinct.