I love the “warning shot”. If pointing your pistol at him and yelling “stop or I’ll shoot” doesn’t stop a drugged up 300 lb thug from charging at you, does any sane person think a warning shot would make any difference. What does the warning shot accomplish? Showing him that the cop’s gun is real and loaded...unlike those cops who patrol with fake or unloaded guns?
Also, warning shots can strike and kill innocent people.
As others have stated, you shoot until you are sure the threat has been stopped. If the thug fell to the ground and lay motionless after the first or second shot that is all that would have been fired. If he hadn’t attacked the cop or had surrendered at any point in the confrontation ZERO shots would have been fired and he’d be in the county jail, instead of the morgue.
>> Showing him that the cop’s gun is real and loaded...unlike those cops who patrol with fake or unloaded guns?
I lol’d at that one.
The six shots were at least four in the arm, so how many warnings did the big guy need that it’s game over.