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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
If he was trying to grab the officer's gun, the last thing the officer should do is allow free and open access to it by going for a cross drawn Taser. It is also entirely possible that the officer was not issued with a Taser.
But it's all moot anyway since an active assault and attempts to gain access to the officer's weapon automatically moves the encounter to deadly force on the continuum of force scale, armed assailant or not.
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If he's running down the street he's not fighting for the gun, if the guy is in the car trying to grab it fire away but when he's running down the street does he really need to be shot 7 times? Apprehend the guy and let justice do its part. I get where your headed just seems like police should use lethal force sparingly and only when absolutely required to save a life.
Part of the problem is that there are so many cases that happened where the person who was killed never did resist and there is a general animosity towards the police. The one time the people protest the guy or his accomplice may have gotten in a fight with the cop turning the situation into a giant moral quagmire. I've seen enough cases of police brutality that it's tough to not just assume the cop was in the wrong, obviously not all cops are bad and not every time they have to kill someone is abuse of power the situation just sucks.