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Originally Posted by directfiesta
In this case , seems like the officer is not outside the law, but still could have tried to incapacitate temporarely the " at the time " suspect .
Out of 3 shots, one hit the suspect, another the patrol cruiser ( strange ... ) and one is unacounted for .
What is strange if why those suspect walked over to the cruiser as requested by the officer instead of fleeing ... not smart .
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Allow me to give you some insight. I don't know much about this specific case, but this is just general information on police training and the reality of shooting a person. One of my best friends is a cop. He was also a presidential guard in the Marine Corp and he is his department's firearms instructor. He has spent hours and hours in classes and seminars and in training exercises learning how to best instruct officers on how to use their firearms.
Here are a few interesting things he has learned:
1. They are trained to shoot to kill. The reason is simple. If you shoot a guy in the leg he can still return fire and kill you or an innocent bystander.
2. The human body was not built to react to being shot at or shooting another person. In the heat of the moment you react in a very specific way. Your shoulders hunch and your head comes down and your arms rise so as to protect your neck and the back of your head. You have no control over this, your body does it involuntarily. Your brain also thinks faster than your body can move. So when a bad guy pulls a guy and you pull yours to shoot back your brain is already taking the shot before you have the gun all the way up and aimed. This is why there is a bullet in the cruiser and one unaccounted for. In many cases the bullets will "walk" to the suspect which means there may be a few rounds in a line in the ground leading up to the person they are shooting. This happens because the brain has you pulling the trigger in an effort to defend yourself while you are still raising the gun and aiming.
3. Shooting someone in the leg, shoulder, arm etc is hard. Under extreme stress if you have 1.2 seconds to draw your gun and shoot someone that is 10-15 feet away the odds of even the best marksman hitting a limb is pretty slim. It is much safer and more effective to aim center mass.
I have taken part (playing the bad guy) in many of their con sim live shooter training. They use guns that are modified to shoot little paint bullets. The guns are very accurate to about 15 feet. You might be shocked how many bullets get shot within a 10 foot range that don't hit the target because your bodies reaction to the situation, even when it is just training, makes it difficult to aim and shoot.