Cop justified in shooting man 7 times in domestic
Interesting article. From the piece, it’s not as alarming as it sounds. Seems there were multiple gun shots during a physical struggle. And, honestly, if i’m getting stabbed then I’m shooting until the stabbing stops.
March 10th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Got news for you. 99.9999 percent of all police shootings are declared justified… Does it really matter that it actually may have been?
March 10th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
@John-That’s because 99.999 percent of all police shootings are justified. Cops don’t run around looking for people to murder. Taking someone’s life leaves you with one of the worst feelings you’ve ever felt, and it’s only compounded when the family hits the media and strokes the flames by saying what a great this-that-or the other he was. The Officer was shooting to stop. Despite what the media would have you believe, a determined person isn’t going to stop because he was shot once, and Officers aren’t trained to do amazing single shot spinal cord severing killshots…they are trained to shoot to stop.
March 10th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I’ll agree on this one. You come at anyone with a knife, you get shot until you stop.
I’ll have to respectfully disagree with Jeff, in that it’s certainly more than 1 in 10,000 shootings that is a bad shoot. There have been several in the last year (like the Las Vegas Costco murder) that were certainly bad shoots, and there aren’t 10,000-50,000 police shootings in the last year to make up the difference.
The BJS says about 360 arrest-related deaths yearly up to 2005. Are you really saying that you think that there’s only one bad shoot every 29 years?
March 10th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Jeff from dc… Sure they are. Problem is most of us here could show at least one incident where a non justified was declared justified.. Take the drunk driver in lebanon, tn or the preacher in spokane or how about the bum in seattle… All of those were really fucked up justifications…
March 10th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
John-cops do what they trained to do, and that sets the bar for what is justified or not justified. The hiring paradigm for Departments has shifted in the past ten year from an emphasis on street smarts( common sense) or prior military to college educated officers. That may seem like a bit of a cop out( zing!) but it is the truth. What you may think of an incident as a grown man who can make adult decisions isn’t being indoctrinated anymore. Im not being condescending when I say that, I’m stating fact. Modern departments preach inside the box cognitive reasoning and hyper liability. New officers are indoctrinated to be scared from the jumpstart. This situation doesn’t fall into that category, but the others mentioned do.
March 10th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
{D}ivide his attention;
{D}isrupt his plan;
{D}isable his body;
{D}estroy his will to fight.
If you have shot the bad guy and he feebly reaches for his weapon and slowly, weakly attempts to raise it; what does this mean? It means that you HAVE NOT SHOT HIM ENOUGH! -Poorly paraphrased from a John Farnham video.
March 11th, 2011 at 12:47 am
Cops, prosecutors and judges on one side and a dead guy on the other. Of course they’re 99% justified.
Just love it when cops get to shoot anybody driving a car – cause it’s a deadly weapon right? How many people get shot driving away from the cop. Most it seems and really makes no difference cause he’s still……..never mind.
Course the feds can shoot mothers with babes in arms cause I guess the kid might be holding.
Politest cop I ever met was one who didn’t like where I was camped. Think the 06 auto loader in my hands had something to do about it.