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Originally Posted by Dion
You don't need 3 or 4 cops shooting similtaneously. They are trained marksmen and one shooting should be sufficent.
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Ideally that would work. But in reality you have 3 or 4 cops, who are on edge, they see a black male in a bad part of town, the mention that there might be a gun is at the front of their minds. There is a good chance they are acting on a reactions and not protocol.
This is actually a very interesting thread, because I just finished reading Blink. Which has a large portion of the book about a similar incident where someone was shot (a lot) when they where reaching for their wallet. The author attributed it to the police reading the situation extremely poorly. I am sure a similar cause is likely the cause in this case.