Shot until the threat ends.If the LEO was just "beat-down" his fine motor skills were impaired.
300lb 40 point buck bearing down on me (even if he hasn’t already blown out my eye socket) I’m emptying the magazine, rinse, and repeat....
So are we some how supposed to be wishing this thug were still alive, walking among us?
You shoot untill you neutralize the threat.If that takes six rounds so be it.
When being rushed by a person with unknown intentions, empty the clip and explain later.
I bet the officer is left handed.
Six shots is FINE. Don’t worry about it. But, I have a SEVEN-shooter.
I think for New York cops the average number of shots fired per incident is about 22. One or two hit the perp, the rest ventilate surrounding buildings, cars and random citizens.
I read that Dr Baden said he’d waived his fee? $10K the item said (don’t have link).
I’m a NRA certified pistol instructor. I often use falling steel torso targets for training. Knock ‘em down, set ‘em up.
I shoot regularly with another trainer who - until a housing development opened up downrange of the club where we shoot and club lawyers told us to stop rapid fire exercises - would empty a fifteen round magazine on one of these torsos before it hit ground.
“Who needs machine guns” he says. Such shooting is more common than you think. But rare among police officers we shoot with. They don’t train that hard.
So, under stressfire, with a broken face, likely blind in the eye he was struck by the 6’ 4” 300 lb “gentle giant” Officer Wilson managed to get every shot on target and stop the threat.
He deserves a medal, a raise, and great praise. No bystanders were hit.
From the reports I read, the guy dropped a couple of feet short of the cop - that implies (at least to me) that anything fewer than the shots he took, and he would’ve reached the cop.
ALWAYS better to be tried by 12 instead of buried by 6.
Don’t forget:
Michael Brown was huge - about 6’ 4” and weighing 290 pounds
At the time of the shooting Officer Wilson was suffering from a severe head/eye injury already inflicted by Brown
The evidence seems to support the assertion that Brown was charging Officer Wilson again - that was like facing a charging bull or bear
Brown had already tried to gain possession of Officer Wilson’s pistol so he had every reason to believe that his life was in danger if Brown got to him again
It looks as if the first shots landed on Brown’s right arm, which probably did not immediately take him down, so the officer kept firing
After the fatal head shots, Brown still landed only about 3 feet from Officer Wilson
If the officer had stopped shooting after 2 or 3 shots Brown would probably have been on top of him again and with plenty of fight left in him
He was a robber.
back when they still used revolvers it was all the shots they had - without reloading.
... waiting for our favorite newbie to show up and once again argue that Wilson should have just stayed in the car.
The officer had a fractured eye-socket, was stunned and who knows how much he could see and what condition he was in. This may be a reason why all the bullet hits are on the perps right side or the left from the point of view of the officer.
The best reconstruction of the whole scenario that I can come up with is as follows:
1) Brown, all 6’4” and 292 pounds of him and high on pot, robbed a liquor store of cigars, physically assaulting (though not TOO badly) the much smaller clerk.
2) Brown left the liquor store and about 10 minutes later was confronted in the street by Officer Wilson for ... wait for it ... walking in the street.
3) Brown evidently did SOMETHING to the officer in the car in the way of a confrontation at this point. I don’t know if he went for his gun, popped him in the face, neither or both. But SOMETHING happened. I strongly suspect that the physical altercation involved Wilson being struck - hard - in the face, fracturing the orbit of his left eye.
4) Brown started walking away, and Wilson told him to stop. Wilson had his weapon drawn. Brown apparently stopped, turned around and proceeded to rush Wilson.
5) Wilson shot Brown 6 times, 4 in the arm, 1 in the neck area and 1 in the head (at the top, which is a bit strange at first, but not if Brown had started to double over in pain from the prior shots that hit him, or had stumbled).
My conclusion is that Brown, a very large and imposing guy, who was high and had just robbed a store and committed assault (well, actually, battery) in the process, didn’t want to be hauled in to face justice. That an 18-year-old male who was also probably not terribly well educated misjudged the situation is plain. As for Officer Wilson, he got busted up buy a huge guy, who a few seconds later turned on him and rushed him. What would ANYONE do? You’ve been fairly seriously injured, your vision is probably somewhat impaired and you may be feeling like you’re about to pass out, and all you have to defend yourself with in the next 2-3 seconds against a pissed-off guy the size of an NFL linebacker WHO ALREADY ASSAULTED A UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICER is a 9mm pop-gun? I’d have probably emptied the gun into him and reloaded ASAP. It is a tribute to Wilson’s training and his presence of mind that Brown was shot 6 times and not more.
This seems pretty open and shut to me - but, of course, that matters not one whit to the rabble-rousers in Fergusen and DC. If Wilson isn’t charged, look for riots AT LEAST in St. Louis, and probably in a few dozen cities. If he is charged and gets a not guilty verdict in a few months or a year, look for the same results. Meanwhile, I’d advise anyone living or working anywhere near a similar inner city neighborhood to carry, and to practice A LOT with their firearm.
What a waste of a life! No, Brown was almost certainly never going to be a Nobel Prize winner or similar contributor to the general well-being of humanity, but still he was a person who could have been decent and raised a decent family. Had he actually been a gentle giant, he could’ve very positively affected a lot of lives. Instead he is dead and gone, and his only legacy is violence committed in his name and more hatred fostered by his idiocy.
All of Al Sharpton’s security guards should limit themselves to two bullets.