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Watch the video. There already were bullet holes in the driver’s side of the perp’s truck when he spun out and skidded to a halt, so police obviously already knew they were in for a fight for their lives before he got out of the vehicle.

Their Use of Deadly Force policy probably tells them to continue to treat a deadly threat with a firearm as viable for so long as the suspect has control of the weapon. Most of the shots were fired when the perp was on the ground and on his back but with the pistol still in his hand and his hand on his chest. I only heard one shot on the tape that was fired after the perp dropped his gun, so by that yardstick, I can only see where there potentially might have been one excess round fired, but I couldn’t see what was going on on the right side of the perp’s body, or know where the final shot came from, so I can’t say with any reasonable degree of certainty that he wasn’t still presenting a threat or that all 45 shots weren’t justifiable.

Chances are, all the police were trying to fire while minimizing their exposure. Which by rights they should have been, since they had overwhelming force on the scene and the nimrod was surrounded. There was little risk of the perp escaping, therefore little threat to public safety if they took every possible measure to REDUCE THE RISK TO THEMSELVES. There was no point in any of them risking getting killed just so they could reduce their rounds expended. When the perp stepped out of the truck with a weapon in his hand and began advancing on police, his fate was sealed. The rest is just details.

His worked so well I think maybe Alien Gear should hire Dick Metcalf to run a redemption ad campaign for them. Seems to me they’re made for each other.