Atlanta fired police officers in the last week or so because they used lethal force (tasers) against kids in a car.
So, Atlanta already set precedent that use of tasers is lethal force. So when this perp stole the police officer’s taser and fired that taser at the police officer, he was using my lethal force against the officer. Lethal force can be returned at that point.
which will be the argument for the defendant , and yes you made a good point thank you.
They were fired for and charged with aggravated assault, pointing or aiming a gun, simple battery and criminal damage to property. Not for using lethal force. Since a Taser is not classified as a lethal weapon in Georgia it's hard to see how they could have been charged with that.