d21lewis on 22 July 2016
As always, when it comes to threads like this, I mention I was a cop for almost a decade. My expert opinion? The cop fucked up. I can usually defend an officer's actions but not this time.
Even the "I thought he was being held hostage" defense. We have training targets with hostage/offenders on them. In training, it was used to illustrate that, even with an AR-15, none of us were capable of taking an accurate shot that would neutralize the bad guy and save the hostage. I actually shot the hostage in the shoulder. That's just something the average officer isn't encouraged to do.
