You may not realize how right you are.
You are justified in eliminating the THREAT, but not the persons life.
The advice posted here earlier (now wisely removed by the Admin Moderator) that after the initial confrontation you should walk over and put a bullet in the prone perp’s head, then drag him into the house to try to establish a Castle Defense was in reality a plea to be indicted for murder.
“Moving” is a sticky point. Crawling away is not a threat. Trying to bring a gun to bear is.
re: The DA/SA. When you “tell your story” without answering questions, you have established playing field. Although you have the right to counsel, much greater weight is given to what is said as an “initial utterance.”
Also, someone is going to tell the cop “what happened”. That will be in his/her report. That will then be the story the media tells. Never let the other person, the other person’s friends, or in these days, even those of the perp’s “other” race make up a story to tell the cops.
As it turned out, in Ferguson, the people who claimed the LEO shot Brown unnecessarily COULD NOT have seen what happened. They were elsewhere, but because the PD didn’t tell Officer Wilson’s “story” for days, the perp’s “friends” story was the only one the media had.
Based on the fact Wilson was found not guilty, what do you mean?
Correction, the Grand Jury decided not to indict Wilson and Wilson walked.
Once again, they lied in this scenario and they would tell you law enforcement was lying hours later if they had gave them Wilson's version of the event. They would be stupid to do that anyway. Every word they said would be litigated and if they didn't have time to investigate thoroughly, they'd get eaten alive legally later. Bet the rent.
One more thing Strac, if they blew holes in a prematurely released statement from Wilson and the PD, it could have cost Wilson BIG as they'd use any errors or omissions to impeach Wilson's statement.
The only parts of your response I need to reply to (most of it is completely true, btw) are 1) when a person I have shot is moving do do ANYTHING but put his hands in the air where I can see them, then by God that is a threat because if he has them under his body to drag it along then my assumption is that he has a gun under there. 2) the only thing I am going to tell an investigating officer or DA is “he did xxxxxx to convince me that he was a threat to life/safety and so I discharged my weapon into him to eliminate that threat..... I do not wish to make any other statements without my attorney present.” If I have to repeat that 175 times, I will.