In another place I saw a comment from a former corrections officer who had no sympathy for Brailsford, the cop who shot Shaver. The corrections officer said he had extracted violent prisoners from their cells without serious incident because he knew how to do his job. Unlike this moron Brailsford
I agree there was realistically no excuse for the shooting. But in these cases courtrooms and instructions to juries do not necessarily deal with what would be realistic if a properly trained person was correctly executing his duties in a situation he was supposedly trained to expect and handle. They deal with what the average person’s reactions and motivations be in such a situation. The key of this being of course whether they were in fear of their lives.