PTSD.
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Very possibly. He’s a vet, a shooting instructor for the Sheriff’s department, and like all other LEOs in this country, has been steeped in the “shoot them before they shoot you” mentality for the last several years.
Doesn’t excuse what happened, but does explain the “why” of it.
But then creates a new question, “Why didn’t the higher ups catch it?”
We should retrain all LEO’s to wait until they are shot first before they can deploy their weapons...there...problem solved...
Hetty, everyone should listen to the video of the press conference at the link — it is stunning.
The driver of the car that pulled up in front of the deputies said that it was clear that it was a kid carrying a toy gun — no doubt.
But most stunning was the fact from the autopsy that the first shot that Gelhaus fired dropped Andy. It was the one that went through his chest and into his heart.
The next 7 shots fired at him were after he was down on the ground.
The bullets that went into his buttocks went travelled the length of his body indicating that they were fired when he was already lying on the ground.
This was beyond eggregious.