Posted on 08/19/2014 1:40:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After a preliminary autopsy revealed that teenager Michael Brown was shot at least six times to the front of his body by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Aug. 9, a retired Baltimore City police officer who was involved in six individual use-of-force shootings in his 12-year law enforcement career, told The Christian Post Monday that, in general, six shots is not an overly excessive amount of shots for officers to take when trying to take down an assailant and protect themselves.
Robert Yamin, who was forced to retire on disability from the Baltimore City Police Department after being shot by an assailant with his own weapon, said that police officers must do whatever they can to ensure their safety once they get into an altercation and the assailant doesn't let up.
"It appears without having any real knowledge, just based on theory, that the officer was justified. The amount of bullets fired, you shoot whatever you need to stop the incident," Yamin said. "Until he stops coming at you. You keep shooting"
Yamin added that in split-second incidents, police don't cock their gun but instead fire all the way through meaning the shots will be less accurate because it requires more pressure to fire the weapon. When dealing with high intensity situations, it is in the officer's best interest to fire multiple times because these situations tend to happen so fast.
"The whole incident probably took place in two seconds, maybe three," Yamin speculated. "You can imagine what it would be like to go through four seconds of not knowing whether you are going to live or die, and it is all based on what you do in the next two or three seconds so you are making a decision, just split second."
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Hell yeah. If the guy doesn’t go down keep firing till he does.
oh, sure but that’s a whole other matter. IF there’s an indictment and trial, the costs for witnesses and depositions will be thru the roof.
Some similar comments have been posted many times. Police aren't trained that way. I certainly was never trained that way (shoot to wound). Center of mass center mass until the threat is stopped. Maybe go for a kill shot if you are running out of rounds.
If Brown actually would not stop and charged the officer after seeing the pistol aimed at him, he was either very loaded, or wanted to die...or just so possessed that he didn’t care.
That would fall under rule #1. Which was once again proven in the Michael Brown fight.
The shots were all off to the right side - as though the policeman were trying to only wound Brown to make him stop charging - but he kept coming and taking more shots until he toppled forward and received the fatal shot to the forehead as he went down......
Both should pop through, no problem.
9mm routinely passess through a 4x4 post...hell, I've seen 124gr hollow points pass through a 5inch green tree trunk. In fact one of the old-school gripes on the round is that it pops through too easily...which is a naive perspective.
I think all cops should stay in the car. Especially if they pull me over. ;^)
So the guy must have been huge for no bullets to come out of his back.
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