Posted on 07/18/2020 9:39:17 AM PDT by knighthawk
A 23-year-old Los Angeles police officer known as 'top shot' is being sued by the heartbroken 14-year-old daughter of a man she killed, after he appeared to lunge at the cop with a box cutter.
Toni McBride, an officer in LAPD's Newton Division who has appeared in magazines and practices at gun ranges alongside Hollywood stars including Keanu Reeves, is being sued after bodycam footage showing her shooting Daniel Hernandez, 38, in downtown Los Angeles in April was released.
The footage shows that after instructing him to drop a box cutter he was holding, Hernandez appeared to continue to walk towards the officer.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Indeed have law will protect.
That was a good shoot.Not Guilty.
Stupid idiot gambled and lost.
Listen to the cops when they are pointing a gun at you and telling you to drop their weapon.
Don’t bank on them not firing when you are coming to hurt them.
Too stupid for words.
Every police officer knows that a 'perp', armed with a cutting edge instrument, in this case a box cutter, knows that any perp lunge within 21 feet, will result with the officer getting cut up,
if the firearm is still in the holster.
There is little to no protection for the officer allowing for the officers reaction time to the assault.
I’ve got a book on the 1911 pistol. There are a couple of photos in it that are hard to look at. They’re of knife wounds
Killing crazed attacker Daniel Hernandez was a public good.
The comments at the link are split about her actions.
What nobody pointed out was that while it was clear he had a box cutter and was not stopping, there’s no way they could know if he had any other weapon, like a gun, that he could have used if he were only injured.
There could have been dead cops if not a dead idiot.
I suspect that it’s a male thing not respecting a female officer, or thinking that she’s too girly to really shoot, or that he can cow her with his tough guy act like he does with the other females in his life.
Either way, I’ll bet he was banking on her not shooting because she was young and female.
He lost.
What? She needed to carry a tape measure, also?
Key tactic in knife fighting is concealing the knife while approaching target, disguising the threat...that average time may be critically shorter in that case....
Is that her finger on the trigger? I was distracted by her breasticles but it appears that way. I’ll have to keep looking.
This officer was already pointing the gun at the knifeman when he was still pretty far away. Should she have waited until he was within, say, 10 feet? No idea.
What is it with folks, don’t they listen when police give them an order?
PS: Looking again at the moment she started shooting, he wasn’t even moving toward her at any great speed. Actually, looks like he stopped walking right before being shot.
The element of 'surprise' adds to the reaction time of any assault.
The nickname of "Top Shot" will not be an asset for the police officer's defense.
Officers are muscle and muscle memory trained to shoot for center of mass to stop the threat.
'Deadly force' is employed only in response to deadly threat, or deadly force.
This situation meets both justifications.
Only a ignoramus would advise for an officer to shoot for the legs, or a wound injury, when the officer's life is at risk.
No curl on the trigger. The finger is straight out to the front of the guard.
Perhaps the perp figured since the officer was a female, he could best her response.
He happened to pick on the wrong officer - he lost !
Or just fire into the air. The Biden way.
The element of ‘surprise’ adds to the reaction time of any assault
Just to be clear...concealment surprise shortens the available reaction time of the window of opportunity to identify threat, make decision, draw and fire...
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