“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.
Wrong. The Ferguson police chief said no such thing - he has consistently said that the investigation is ongoing. And police don’t have the right to shoot at a fleeing suspect just because the suspect attacked the cop before fleeing (if that is what happened). Police can only shoot at a fleeing suspect if, at the time of the shooting, the police have probable cause to believe the suspect poses a significant risk of death or serious bodily harm to the officers or others. That is a very difficult showing for the cops to make when a suspect is unarmed and (allegedly) verbally surrendering to the police.