Devil’s advocate. Would one headshot be more justified than 51 random hurried shots? What amount of random hurried shots would have been justified in this situation? At what point during the shootings do you determine the suspect is no longer a threat?
These are all questions you’re expecting cops to have a rational, logical answer to during a very intense, illogical situation that happens in mere seconds. You can armchair analyze these situations and come out with a better conclusion than the one that happened every time, but you have the comfort of not being a part of that situation.
8 cops all shooting at once would only need to fire 7 times and that even has a few misses. That could actually be done insanely quickly.
With that said, I don’t think we need to play “devil’s advocate” to justify this situation at all and I think it’s highly inappropriate. Either the cops are highly trained professionals or they’re scared idiots. If the police with all their ‘training’ can react like scared idiots then at least the same level of leeway should be given to the people they constantly assault.
Devil’s advocate. Would one headshot be more justified than 51 random hurried shots? What amount of random hurried shots would have been justified in this situation? At what point during the shootings do you determine the suspect is no longer a threat?
These are all questions you’re expecting cops to have a rational, logical answer to during a very intense, illogical situation that happens in mere seconds. You can armchair analyze these situations and come out with a better conclusion than the one that happened every time, but you have the comfort of not being a part of that situation.
It’s not a split second decision when they already plan on killing the person.
How long does it take to fire those many shots? It wouldn’t be “mere seconds”, would it?
8 cops all shooting at once would only need to fire 7 times and that even has a few misses. That could actually be done insanely quickly.
With that said, I don’t think we need to play “devil’s advocate” to justify this situation at all and I think it’s highly inappropriate. Either the cops are highly trained professionals or they’re scared idiots. If the police with all their ‘training’ can react like scared idiots then at least the same level of leeway should be given to the people they constantly assault.
You could get 6 shots off easy in a few seconds.