It is basically the standard of US police training that when faced with any sort of resistance that could possibly conceivably cause harm to an officer, the first, second, and third options are to draw pistols and fire as many rounds as quickly as possible center mass with intent to kill.
Just watched a different police shooting involving a kidnapper and his victim in the back seat of a car. When the car was finally stopped, the kidnapper fired his pistol at cops and the cops responded by shooting the car roughly 150 times. The kidnapper lived, the victim died. Official reports and autopsies insist that the kidnapper executed her and she was not struck by police gunfire, which is obviously very convenient for the department’s PR and legal teams.
It is basically the standard of US police training that when faced with any sort of resistance that could possibly conceivably cause harm to an officer, the first, second, and third options are to draw pistols and fire as many rounds as quickly as possible center mass with intent to kill.
Just watched a different police shooting involving a kidnapper and his victim in the back seat of a car. When the car was finally stopped, the kidnapper fired his pistol at cops and the cops responded by shooting the car roughly 150 times. The kidnapper lived, the victim died. Official reports and autopsies insist that the kidnapper executed her and she was not struck by police gunfire, which is obviously very convenient for the department’s PR and legal teams.
That’s insane. I reckon if you can’t be a good cop without a gun, you shouldn’t be a cop with one.