I'm an Australian cop, so I have an idea about the situation.
When it's high stress and you feel like the enemies are closing in around you (an experience I've felt a few times), your decision making skills deteriorate a bit and you tend to go into fight/flight/freeze mode.
Most cops will instinctively go into fight mode and shoot back, it's kind of in our nature and a reason we gravitate towards military/paramilitary jobs in the first place.
The guys were clearly in flight mode and the sensible option was missed due to stress.
I think the movie adequately displayed the errors in judgement made by experienced cops when dealing with high stress, life and death situations.
We are human at the end of the day, and hindsight is a wonderful thing. Often I look back and think of how I could have handled a situation better, but ultimately I have to own my decisions and try to justify them to the multitude of people out to condemn me......
Adjust your face; take your time, because it's about to be rocked off - permanently
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