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Originally Posted by nik-
"Threat" is out of the equation when the person is running away and shot in the back.
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Didn't Mythbusters prove that 30'-40' was the distance someone armed with a melee weapon (like a knife) could cover (running) before someone armed with a gun could draw and shoot? If they were fighting over the officers gun, and the kid figured he wouldn't get it and tried to run...35' sounds about right for an officer to draw and shoot.
Now, SHOULD that officer have drawn and shot? That's a question for the jury.