“Then the perp got out of the car to hightail it out of there, and the cop fired to kill him (as trained to do).”
Cops are not trained to “fire to kill” fleeing perps. If the incident happened as you described it, then it was a bad shoot.
“Cops are not trained to “fire to kill” fleeing perps. If the incident happened as you described it, then it was a bad shoot.”
If he was in the Cop’s squad car and was trying to wrestle the Cop’s gun away, and a shot was fired inside the car, and the Cop’s face was bruised and swollen from the Perp’s beating on him, then indeed he had every right to go after the Perp and shoot him dead. They had the Ferguson Police Chief on Fox saying his Cop had every right to shoot the perp.