Even if everything you say is correct, it doesn’t matter what he was trying to do. All that matters is how his actions would have been interpreted by a reasonable officer taking into account their training and experience. Training and experience tells you to fire the moment that someone goes for a gun. You do not wait for an explanation of their motives. As was pointed out by some of the witnesses who also had CCWs, they were also taught this in CCW class.
“Training and experience tells you to fire the moment that someone goes for a gun. You do not wait for an explanation of their motives. As was pointed out by some of the witnesses who also had CCWs, they were also taught this in CCW class.”
Nope. Not in the class I took. In fact, I was specifically told that someone reaching for a gun might have nothing to do with justification for shooting. I was also told that cops will sometimes tell you to ‘drop it’ or ‘hand it over’...the 2 instructors debated if it was wise to obey or better to just stick your arms up and not move.
Based on recent events, I’m inclined to say put your hands up and make them shoot you in the armpit. And if the inquest is at Las Vegas, that will probably be called a justified shooting. After all, the LVPD has shot many unarmed men without any questions being raised.
>Even if everything you say is correct, it doesn’t matter what he was trying to do.
>All that matters is how his actions would have been interpreted by a reasonable officer taking into account their training and experience.
>*Training and experience tells you to fire the moment that someone goes for a gun.*
Wow. According to that sort of a mentality it is absolutely moral and correct for the police to issue orders to disarm [or even present their weapon] and then execute them for complying! What do you suppose the majority of people would do if presented with multiple firearms leveled at them demanding that they surrender their weapon via a command to “Drop it!”?
Just shoot everyone who would comply because “anyone stupid enough to touch a weapon when the police are geared-to-go deserves to get shot”?