Posted on 08/19/2014 1:40:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After a preliminary autopsy revealed that teenager Michael Brown was shot at least six times to the front of his body by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Aug. 9, a retired Baltimore City police officer who was involved in six individual use-of-force shootings in his 12-year law enforcement career, told The Christian Post Monday that, in general, six shots is not an overly excessive amount of shots for officers to take when trying to take down an assailant and protect themselves.
Robert Yamin, who was forced to retire on disability from the Baltimore City Police Department after being shot by an assailant with his own weapon, said that police officers must do whatever they can to ensure their safety once they get into an altercation and the assailant doesn't let up.
"It appears without having any real knowledge, just based on theory, that the officer was justified. The amount of bullets fired, you shoot whatever you need to stop the incident," Yamin said. "Until he stops coming at you. You keep shooting"
Yamin added that in split-second incidents, police don't cock their gun but instead fire all the way through meaning the shots will be less accurate because it requires more pressure to fire the weapon. When dealing with high intensity situations, it is in the officer's best interest to fire multiple times because these situations tend to happen so fast.
"The whole incident probably took place in two seconds, maybe three," Yamin speculated. "You can imagine what it would be like to go through four seconds of not knowing whether you are going to live or die, and it is all based on what you do in the next two or three seconds so you are making a decision, just split second."
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Yes - somebody that big high on pot and the cop with a girlie 9mm??
Just to inflame the vigilantes....
yes you shot until they stop coming at you.
When a 6 ft 4 inch nearly 300 piund guy is attacking you I guarantee I would unload until he stopped, and four in the arm is not going to make him stop.
So the media needs to back off trying to convict this cop and get back to the ral questions.
This guy was on drugs, attacking a store clerk, robbing a store and attacking a cop in 10 minutes.
Them thugs come out to rob, and riot, to shot at cops, throw bricks and bottles, and somehow these idiots in the media would rather blame whitey cop
6 shots is very low for police use of force. Most I read about involve a magazine dump at least.
Was he using a revolver? This is news!
exactly
You shoot until they drop, four in the arm is not going to stop a guy that big
What is unusual is that the cop actually HIT him 6 times. Under intense pressure, many people can barely manage a 10% hit/miss ratio.
Well, you know Bloomberg would be happy with 6 shots. He wants to limit guns to 7, so this cop gave him a bonus round.
that’s why I keep the 15 shot mag in my Ruger SR40C and the 9 shot mag as the back up.
For those times when 5 shots from my .38 Special might not be enough
Doesn't get more simple than that.
Not to mention that the cop has a busted face and he’s wired up. It takes what it takes to stop the brute force attack of a 6’2” 275lb savage.
I think when they choose to pull the weapon out it is to stop a threat and it is not unusual to empty the whole clip to make sure the threat doesn’t prevent them from going home to their family.
Not a popular view with some, but it does make sense and the way it is.
“Yamin added that in split-second incidents, police don’t cock their gun but instead fire all the way through”
The article said this Yamin guy was a retired police officer. He must have retired a long time ago because that stuff he is saying applies only to revolvers.
Uh, that “girlie” 9mm did the job.
About 50 pounds per 1/4 oz bullet. Sounds about right.
They should probably shoot him again just to make sure.
Don’t forget the Officer just got a punch to the head ,vision could have been affected
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