07-10-2019, 11:03 AM
(07-10-2019, 11:00 AM)GMDino Wrote: As a last resort.
This officer could legitimately say he feared for his life I suppose. But it was still a fight, not a gun fight.
Like I said hard call and I'd be more than likely behind the use of deadly force in this case, but I still have my reservations with it.
That is probably the issue then, you can die in fights even if they aren't gun fights. When a 6'6 300 pound man is on top of you, there is no waiting until he has chocked for 5 seconds before you protect yourself or bashed your head into the ground one time instead of two. The expectation of how long an officer must wait in this situations is unrealistic and overly dangerous to the officers. It only takes that person on top of you a second to get your gun from you and use it if we are still hanging on the gun requirement for deadly force.
I agree about all the other things that should be happening in relations, but the public needs to reset their expectations of what an officer's risk threshold is because right now it seems to be based on fantasy.
