cause the thugs won't stand still?
Posted on 08/20/2014 12:21:07 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Police are often harshly criticized for their lethal use of firearms, giving many reason to wonder: Why don't police shoot to wound? That was CNN's Wolf Blitzer's question to legal scholar Jeffrey Toobin when discussing the shooting death of Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown. "Why can't they shoot a warning shot?... Why can't they shoot to injure?" Blitzer queried.
To answer Blitzer's (and your) questions, here's a general overview of why police don't shoot to wound:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.findlaw.com ...
Oops. How about pistol? lol
I believe that he was shooting for center mass as he was trained to do. Hitting him 8-10” to the left of cm was probably due to his injury, adrenaline, speed of the attack an target presentation.
BTT
I am of the same opinion.
Better yet, just shoot the gun out of their hand like the Lone Ranger and all those other guys did.........
Nonsense, the officer didn't realize that Brown was left handed............ /s
Shoot to stop. Period.
I’m currently going through “diagnostics” teaching my wife to shoot. She jerks the gun in anticipation. She shoots way low at 7:00 but actually prints pretty tight.
This might be a little uncomfortable to read and follow, but you know that good strategy includes putting ourselves in the shoes of others. Otherwise, “pride” and all of that.
Take another look at the diagram in the examiner’s report. Hold your right arm down at your side and compare with the hit areas in the diagram. Then raise your right hand about halfway up, and notice the areas of the hits in the diagram again and the relationship to the area of the head. That’s going to be acted out and seen in a presentation in court.
Then, have a good listen to the following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEmBhV8RB4
It’s doubtful that more than a dozen people were nearby, on that block, watching the actual incident happen. I lived in a much rougher neighborhood than Ferguson during the late 1970s, because it was much closer to work than where I lived before. There were over 300 unsolved homicides in that relatively small but densely populated city each year.
Did jury duty there, too. Most of the residents there were way against crime of any kind in their neighborhood, and only a handful of bad boys there (out of thousands) committed the violent crimes. Most of the residents talked with a different accent (southern accent but some of them with some different slang), but they weren’t really much different from those of other places I lived (the Ozarks, for example, and Texas).
Back to Ferguson...
The mystery caller, Josie, didn’t report that her friend’s “significant other,” Wilson, had any treatment or serious eye socket injury, even though the incident happened nine or ten days before her call.
A general report of injuries and physical condition of an injured policeman (I’m old fashioned) are commonly immediately reported by the press, even if without reporting his name. Why haven’t journalists published copies of the police report? Copies are routinely made available to the public. Where are the copies of his call to dispatch after the incident?
Yea, I’ve Netflixed all of them for the Little Crazy Woman. Tom’s one of the good guys. He gets it. I also like “Blue Bloods”
Wolfie has watched too many Gary Cooper and John Wayne movies.
cause the thugs won't stand still?
yup, fatal wounds seem to work best
Something else noticeable from the diagram. There was a conspicuous lack of penetration from some rounds and a tendency to ricochet from others, given the number of rounds that hit. Also notice the probability of bone damage at the right eye socket with the media gossip in mind.
The only thing generally for sure about the whole spectacle, is that it’s looking messy and bad before court time—especially the likelihood of political consequences of much of the political gossip. Most voters are distrustful of both political parties, seeing bands of regulating groups of government-linked thieves, each socialist group trying to take funding from other groups.
if you’re shooting to wound you don’t need to shoot.
besides disparity of force arguments make this question ridiculous.
Good points. Thanks
You have to wonder if Liberals are capable of understanding the concept of self-defense.
It seems no amount of clear evidence to the effect if of the officers self-defensive actions will settle a people already determined not only to convict him but not even to wait for an investigation.
If the kid was shot in the black they would have a case, but he wasn’t, he was shot facing the cop, after a struggle.
Just a personal story.
On one of my deer hunts I shot a nice buck. He walked out of the thick woods into the less dense woods and then just stood broadside to me about 60 paces away, his head was to the left as he was walking from my right to left. Anyway, the 180 grain Soft Point bullet hit him right through the heart and then hit the rib cage on the opposite side. The bullet then turned about 120 degrees right and about 45 degrees up, hit the spine and then deflected again to travel straight down his spine back to his hip where it turned 90 degrees again and exited his body on his right side through his right hind quarter (the side away from me). Needles to say he dropped like a rock dead as a doornail.
My point being bullets do crazy things once they enter a body. I know this was a high power 30 caliber round hand loaded and fired from my 30-06 but even pistol rounds do weird things even though they are not as powerful.
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