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So shooting a police officer and shooting at police would not provoke a lethal response from Police?  |
Yes, it would, and did. Police did shoot back at the male. However, "suicide by cop" is a very specific thing, as I'm trying to explain. People who do it want to die. They generally use the minimal amount of provocation necessary, and they want to be killed, so they do not fight back, hide, turn or run away. They make themselves as easy and as big of a target as possible, so that the chance of a kill shot are that much higher. Just shooting at police is not "suicide by cop". If this person had been trying to suicide by cop, he'd have shot at (they don't usually hit the officer, after all they are trying to provoke a response, not kill the person they want to kill them) the officer and then just stood there while he was shot, probably trying to hold his gun as 'aggressively looking' as possible, to make sure that he was shot. Suicide by cop requires that you are directly killed BY a cop.
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That they did not drop their weapon and approach officers unarmed for arrest and processing not convince officers that lethal response was/is still the optimal way to resolve the situation?
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Despite what tv would have you think, no. Cops are on the lookout for suicide by cop, and will generally try to keep that in mind. Especially if they know the person they are dealing with is suicidal in general. Despite what folks try to say, most officers want everyone alive at the end of the day, and they are not trigger-happy kill-crazy cowboys.
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In any case if they voluntarily decided to remain in a burning building where it is most likely they would either burn to death or succumb to smoke inhalation, it would still count as suicide. And last I recall they don't publish the names of those who jump in front of trains, or hang themselves to prevent copycats.
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Yes on all counts. But that's 'just' suicide. Not suicide by cop.