During a summer evening last month, Jason Bagshaw, commander of special operations of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Emergency Response Team, protected restaurant guests along Washington, D.C.’s waterfront from Lazarus Wilson, a gun-wielding criminal. As restaurant patrons were ducking for cover, Bagshaw valiantly confronted the threat. After Wilson refused Bagshaw’s multiple requests to drop his gun, Bagshaw fatally shot him. Bagshaw potentially saved countless lives. But despite his heroism, many media outlets wanted to blame him, not Wilson, for the incident.