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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Indeed, and a standing command, as mentioned above, is protect self first, then ask questions. In a reaction situation, there isn't time to wait for whoever is asking as an incident commander to bark an order at one officer to shoot. It's self defence, and training takes over for all officers.
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If you have a group of officers at the scene i'm sure the self defence thing is something they get trained for. A simple command of so and so has my permission to shoot if and when he/she feels threatened.