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Originally Posted by worth
As far as I am aware, Police will never shoot to injure. If you are firing your weapon, the intent is to kill. I have to believe that the moment the first shot was fired, the intent to kill was there. And because of that, I don't have a problem with the number of shots fired since the decision was made by this particular Officer to terminate the suspect. Whether that determination is correct or not is the issue I see. Maybe i'm just splitting hairs here and it's all wrapped up in the same issue.
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No, I think you're bang on. We've heard it before from cops and criminal experts. When you're in the moment and you've made a decision as an officer to "take out" a suspect, the number of shots kind of becomes irrelevant, as it takes very, very little to unload a bunch of shots in a tense situations, and I believe it.
I think people are a little too used to video games sometimes, thinking an officer can just nail the heart in one shot, and toss the gun back in the old holster. Now obviously there's a cut off where it starts to become excessive, but I don't think 9 shots with all those cops there is anywhere near that number.
But also like you said, although the amount of shots weren't the issue, there's definitely a huge debate over the call to start firing shots in the first place.