Man, libertarians have been really showing thier ass lately
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I'm not sure of the legality of this (depends on the jurisdiction, no doubt) but this isn't quite right, philosophically speaking.
It's not that they have more rights, it's that they have more responsibilities. It's their duty to uphold the law and therefore they can act as though defending themselves while they are defending the law.
In this case, a normal citizen would have been charged with murder; there's no case to be made for self-defense at all. However, the guy got shot while actively impeding the enforcement of a law so, even though the situation could have been resolved without him getting shot, the cops are not liable for the results of his fucking around.
LEOs don't have any of the 2nd amendment restrictions that normal citizens have. They quite literally have more rights than you do just by that alone.