JQPublic1
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Bullshit!The standard law-enforcement firearms training regimen holds that you fire until your adversary is clearly disabled and no longer a threat. McDonald was down and disabled after the first two shots. There was no reason for any further shots. If there was any reason to believe McDonald was still a threat those cops could have taken cover behind their cars rather than openly expose themselves to it.I agree. The military is trained that way as are most LEO's. Problem is no one knows this and see his actions as over the top.
What vanDyke did is unprecedented, even in rogue police behavior. His action seems to be a psychotic loss of self-control.
There is NO training that makes any LEO responsible for assessing whether the threat has been disabled or not. Once the LEO pulls the finger he/she is trained to neutralize the threat by firing at center mass.
"Gee it looks like this threat is 'disabled' because I've shot him in the foot so he can't run away so I'll stop shooting".
You'd be fucking dead in a week using your form of wrong-headed' logic.
If you are a cop in a city where such death by cop is routine, your life expectancy will decrease considerably...At some point targeted people will start arming themselves legally or illegally and resort to urban guerrilla warfare against the police.. That isn't too much different than the steps Americans took after the Boston Massacre.