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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 66_5.0: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wildfire532FB: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ILLMNRD86: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wildfire532FB: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ILLMNRD86: [qb] He didn't have a gun(the dead guy)..... Whatever happened to non-Lethal force? i.e. tasers & batons? The officer's life was NOT in immediate danger, he also could've shot to injure rather than kill.. Statistically officers that fire their weapons, rarely ever only fire one or two shots- instead they tend to get trigger happy and fire away until their guns empty... unnecessary/avoidable death if you ask me. [/qb][/QUOTE]Its hard to say all that from watching the video. Police can't read minds and it happened so fast with the guy ducking back into the truck the cop couldn't know what he was doing. Tasers don't always work either. Again police are TRAINED to unload the entire magazine at a threat, shooting to maim/injure is impossible on a moving target, you shoot for the biggest part of the body, the chest. [/qb][/QUOTE]Cops are also trained to use sound discretion with making life altering judgement calls such as things like with this shooting, if he could not see what the man was reaching for then he should not have opened fire, Period, you cant open fire on someone and kill them because "you thought they were going for a gun" when instead he was reaching for..ummm whatever.. Sometimes some people are better left to not thinking at all, let alone make a judgement call like this.... Also the man did NOT charge/run at the officer in a threatening manner, the officer had enough reaction time to do something else, i.e call for back up, use his batton etc, in my eyes lethal force was not necessary.... [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't know dude. Try and put yourself in that cops position but do so after you've imagined the same scenario but the guy comes out with a gun in his hand. You didn't know what he was reaching for and now your being shot or shot at, would you still pause and wait to see what hes getting? If the scenario was different and the dude jumped out put his hands in the air and the cop shot him 11 times for doing that then i would say the cop is a murderer but from this video the cop didn't know what he was doing and waiting around to find out could have cost him his life, he couldn't have known. If you were a cop who's life would be more important to you, you or the guy infront of you reaching for something you can't see. I've been pulled over before and while the cop was talking to me, i moved my hand that was in my lap and the cop grabbed his gun and asked me what i was doing. When they pull over someone they don't know who you are or what your going to do or if you just had a really bad day and are in a bad mood, when i get pulled over now i keep my hands on the steering wheel the entire time. [/qb][/QUOTE]Agreed Dana. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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