By looking at the impact pattern on the Michael Brown autopsy, it appears his right arm was being targeted.
This happens when aiming for center mass and real world factors intervene.
He was also wounded in the initial confrontation, and it didn’t stop him from attempting to attack again.
Let’s say the perfect world evolved and police did first take out the legs of the criminal when deadly force was authorized.
Does anybody really believe there wouldn’t be an onslaught of lawsuits for punitive damages and compensation of loss by maiming the perp? Now you’ve made the criminal a cripple for life, how much more costly will this make incarceration and rehabilitation?
Now there will always be a question if deadly or maiming force is justified. Cops will still be questioned for their actions.
Will the criminal mind ever change to abide by the law? Now he has incentive to remain criminal for such an unjust consequence, by the criminal mind. Now every criminal will file lawsuits for compensation for the loss of their working potential,...for life. Liberals will still associate the criminal mind as a consequence of poverty, and now the poverty was caused by law enforcement.
There is a bigger issue here, involving the way criminals think and how they allow their thinking to influence their actions and behavior.
We make laws to discriminate between acts which are lawful and those unlawful. They are made to control the disobedient, not to control the obedient. A person who refuses to recognize the law, disobeys the law, and then assaults legitimate authority must be controlled with the intent they will obey the law when given freedom. When they attempt to use deadly force on legitimate authority, there must remain risk for their behavior, otherwise it will become advantageous for the criminal to assault legitimate authority.
Ultimately, a criminal must be held accountable for their actions and when they resist arrest, their resistance must be met with overwhelming force to limit the risk they place on the lawful.
My guess was that Wilson was seeing double, and shooting the wrong one. As they got closer, the images converged, the shots hit the midline, just higher up.
“For such a smart guy Dr. Carson is remarkably stupid.”...
Has he been sitting next to Pelosi lately? The statement he made about shooting for the legs leads me to believe he will NEVER make it to POTUS and he should NOT.
“By looking at the impact pattern on the Michael Brown autopsy, it appears his right arm was being targeted.”
Doubtful.
Wilson was ‘praying and spraying’ as most do when under pressure and not shooting at paper with deliberation.