Bad Boys II

[GMDino]

(05-15-2019, 05:22 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is something I think a lot of people don't realize with regards to "shooting to kill." The policy isn't "shoot to kill," it is "aim center mass." The reason isn't to kill someone, though that is often the only guaranteed way to end the threat, but it's because it reduces the chances of a miss. If you kill a person presenting a threat, even if there are these questions about how much of a threat they were, it is better than missing and hitting a bystander or not ending the threat and the person harming the officer or a bystander.

I'm not a very pro-police person, I'm in favor of reducing the reliance on deadly force and all sorts of other policies that highlight my position as a more liberal person (the police are fascist tools of the bourgeoisie! ), but this isn't the type of incident that does well to highlight trigger-happy police.

Yet you won't be accused of hating the police.

As it should be.

Wanting to make policing BETTER isn't ANTI police.

And this case aside we should "second guess" every shooting by officers.  If "second guess" means looking into the entire incident to make sure there was nothing "funny" going on.