We had a shooting in Greenville back in July. A young man on the run from the police/sheriff’s deputies all day. They had him cornered in woods and when he finally came out, he had a gun in one had, his cell phone in the other. Several deputies jumped out of a van and told him to drop the gun. His back was to the deputies running away from them. They shot him in the back and he died on the spot without ever pointing, not taking a shot at anyone.
Thank God he wasn’t black, for surely the city would have burned down by now.
An older gentleman I worked with told me he had an uncle who was a policeman in Brooklyn. In the old days, if you ran from the police, the scenario went:
Bang! “Stop or I will shoot!”