“So, if you are a cop and some thief is holding something in his hand, how long do you take to decide if he is going to shoot you or not?
It depends on what that “something” is! I don’t know about you, but I can readily tell the difference between an iPhone and a Glock 17!
My point is that life IS precious, and there are no do overs once you’re dead. And while I’d like to believe cops understand that, I look at the Parkland HS “school cop” Peterson and I am brought back to the reality that a lot of cops are chicken$hits who would take a life in an instant, but not put their’s in harm’s way for a bunch of kids who are being shot to hell!
In this particular shooting, I don’t know the right and the wrong, but at the end of the day an unarmed young man is dead, and it doesn’t really matter to me whether or not he was a piece of $hit. The Constitution is supposed to be our protection, but I suspect that in cop circles, it’s an “inconvenience” quite often.
In a tense situation in the dark you could tell that in time to save your life?