Guess what? You just forfeited your right to even participate in this conversation. If you think a police officer who is facing imminent death does not have the right to defend themselves then you sir not only have no right to even talk on this thread you should give up your screen name also.
I may never be able to enjoy Talisker again.
Guess what? The rest of my statement - the part you deliberately left out from post #113 - went like this:
"We have what’s called a legal system. The job of the cop is to defend himself and make an arrest - not do roaming summary executions. Its a subtle difference worth thinking about. Stopping the threat is one thing. Dumping bullets into a downed man to make sure he’s dead, and then ludicrously handcuffing the corpse for the cameras is something completely different."
I guess that's why you left it out - it leaves you nothing to talk about.
I will play in the sand box one more time.
First....no trial takes place until an investigation can occur. Noninvestigatikn can even start until the first thing every officer does on every call must do is completed....Render the scene safe.
The scene can’t be rendered safe until the man teyfor ng to kill the officer with the knife is stopped.
You don’t understand the biomechanics, sensory and perceptual science involved in a critical incident like this.
I doubt that I have a receptive audience with you but I will try to explain it....it takes a human being a minimum amount of time to see something, send that data to the brain, process the info, make a decision, send the signal to the body parts what that decision was, then perform the physical act itself.
The time it takes to all that is between 1.3 & 1.5 seconds. That means a person shooting a gun at a threat can easily squeeze off 1 - 3 rounds after they see a man begin falling while they make and implementation the decision to stop shooting.
Force Science Institute has put out this info as well as many other interesting physical science studies on force encounters stuff.