To think photo of his family should not have been shown?

[KnockMeDown]

Tragic death of policeman with young family, run over by stolen car he was trying to stop. Only happened overnight.

Lunchtime news today, BBC show a photo of him together with his wife and two young children.

AIBU to think this was unnecessary, wrong even? Give them some privacy, FGS, at least for a day?

Happy to be told I am being oversensitive, but as soon as I saw it, I felt very cross.

It may be that they released the photo to show he was more than just a man in a uniform but a person with a family.

If that is the photo the family released it is fine. If it was poached off Facebook like you sometimes see YANBU.

I'm sure his family agreed to the photo being used.

Usually the family choose the photo to release. It is so sad seeing it though.

The picture was released by Merseyside Police, in their official statement confirming his identity.

I cannot believe the police would have posted a picture of one of their own in these circumstances without the family's support for their action.

Totally depends. The police may have put the photo out there with the families permission.

They are far more likely to get help finding who did it, if people indentify him as a person, a husband and father than a faceless 'policeman'.

Unless you know where it came from or why, then Yabu.