RedrickTheCoat
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Take these two shoots out of the equation, what do you think of the DOJ policy update that included the following:Both perps used their vehicles illegally as weapons and got shot. Two good shoots.
"or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to the officer or others, and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle. Firearms may not be discharged from a moving vehicle except in exigent circumstances. In these situations, an officer must have an articulable reason for this use of deadly force."
Do you think that this is a good policy to have or not? To me, it seems it's a good policy to have because if someone panics or makes a single bad decision to try to flee and has the belief and knows that they are not a mortal threat to the person they are trying to get by, then you are needlessly killing someone because as I mentioned in another comment, the laws of physics and motion do not change when an officer discharges their weapon when they are in such close proximity to the vehicle. In fact, as demonstrated by not only the Good shooting, but other shootings, other people can become endanged. In Good's case, it meant accelerating without control of the vehicle. Luckily there was no one in the path of the car.
But even if her decision to flee was a bad one, fleeing alone is not a capital crime.