“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.
“Josie,” a friend of Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson, called into The Dana Loesch Radio Show today. Josie gave Officer Wilson’s side of the story.
Here’s the transcript:
“He pulled up ahead of them. And then he got a call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery. And, they gave a description. And, he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them. Tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.
And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into his car. Punches him in the face and them Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off.
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren’s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, “Freeze!” Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3193375/posts