Why Wednesday - paid to kill

Let's get straight to the point:

Why do police officers get put on paid leave after murdering people??

By now you should have heard about those undercover police officers in Queens, NY shooting some guys outside a strip club. The men, just having been in an argument and seeing people in plain clothes pointing guns at them, understandably try to drive away. Claiming to have seen a gun on one of the men, the officers proceeded to fire 50 rounds at the group in their car. One of the officers yelled "he's got a gun" although he never saw it, nor was one ever found, thus prompting the spray of bullets. Of course the officers were too busy firing to notice that nobody was firing back or had EVER fired on them for that matter, although they would term the incident a "fire-fight". All this is happening while the suspect they could positively identify as having a gun in the club is running away. Why didnt they get HIM?? And why is that police in this country should be accused so regularly of using excessive force? Do they really feel so threatened? Or is it a power trip? A bit of both I think.

So many questions on this...