I don’t know what you’re referring to about casings at 35 ft., perhaps you mean subject at 35 ft instead.
Even if you shoot once in the cruiser, It was reported he fired seven times. The local Chief announced that there were 35 linear feet of shell casings, all from the Officer. Rule one: Meet force with force.
you don't chase and shoot multiple times for 35 feet.
YEP
Notice that the Chief did not release any of that information today even though it was sitting in his lap.
Exactly, force with force. If someone’s beating you while trying to get your gun from you, you’d better assume they intend to kill you with it, and not shop around on your belt for the most fashionable piece of bling to deploy on them.
Furthermore, you have a desperate subject who has just tried to kill a cop fleeing (fleeing, that is, if you believe the proven liar of a witness, who has already been shown to be Brown’s criminal accomplice) the scene—you’re bloodied and bruised from the beating, your ears ring from the shot inside the car—you’re going to risk the danger to the community, and merely HOPE such a giant, murderous beast is safely captured later?
“you don’t chase and shoot multiple times for 35 feet.
It was reported he fired seven times.”
You do if the threat is still coming towards you. We don’t know that isn’t what happened. Witnesses in these types of situations often lie about LEO. It’s a race thing coupled with a hatred towards cops.
If this guy was high on some kind of drug no taser is going to stop him and indeed, it may take multiple bullets to stop him. My understanding is that officers are trained to shoot to kill and to keep shooting until the threat is stopped.
You have to get reasonably close to someone to taze them. That may not be the best plan in all cases. Especially when a suspect is combative, has already reached for your weapon and you have literally a split second to make a decision.
Wait until all information is gathered. All we really have right now is a lot of yakity yak from the news media and unreliable eye witnesses, one of whom was in on the robbery and may be afraid to tell the truth.