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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
So you don't think getting hit by a less-lethal weapon is provoking? Lol.
Yeah cool a weapon was used as a weapon. And a person is dead because it was. But you still haven't explained why they couldn't have just waited until he was an actual threat, or at least on his feet, to escalate this to less-lethal force.
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Laugh all you want. It's designed to de-escalate though pain compliance. And it is VERY effective. In this case, it wasn't. Why? I have no idea. Maybe it missed. Maybe the the guy didn't even feel it.
The waiting question. I did explain it. Waiting is great. I mean i'd suggest if he had been sitting against the pole with his arms down, it would have been different. But he wasn't. He had ninja crawled behind the pole and I don't think he did that to give up.
So what you are suggesting is that his mere body position did not necessitate the use of the Arwen. But if he was standing, it's all ok? So YOU would wait that subtle body position change? Have you ever shot an Arwen? Do you know it's effective range or anything else about it? I mean what if the Arwen cop felt this was the best position to fire a round off. He had a large mass to hit, the guy was close to the ground and maybe less likely to fall, maybe positionally, he was in a good spot to deliver an effective shot. All this combined with all the checkboxes and I would suggest it would have been easy to make that decision.
You can be dismissive with my comments but I don't think it gets us any further ahead.