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Officer with Rifle Takes Out Alleged Police Attacker from 180+ Yards
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<blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3869745" data-attributes="member: 35603"><p>I think the biggest gap between how I interpret what happened in that video or many of these shootings and how you interpret them is the mental soundness of the individual. I believe every responding officer does and should provide very clearly communicated direction on how a person is expected to act upon their arrival to avoid violence and possibly even death. If the person is informed and decides to behave otherwise, the officers focus should and often does shift to protecting the law abiding citizens in the area and themselves. At no point does the safety and well being of the person refusing clear directions trump the safety and well being of the law abiding citizens around them at that point. </p><p></p><p>In the video in question, the officer at the focus of the video was not the first officer on the scene. It can be very reasonably supposed the first responding officers provided very clear directions on how the suspect should respond to avoid being shot at and most likely killed. The fact that the suspect was still shooting at officers when the subject officer arrived on scene tells me the suspect made his decision as to the outcome he found agreeable and the subject officer obliged. I dont cheer for anyone having to take a life, even though some have confused my cheers for a victim finding themselves alive and well after a violent assault as such. It is just a difference in perception of a chain of events and not worth arguing about or me making any blanket assumptions about anyone.</p><p></p><p>I wont even attempt to dive into the suggestion that officers involved in a "good shoot" should be given full mandatory retirement on the spot. That is an INCREDIBLY nuanced discussion covering so many hypothetical scenarios where I would strongly disagree that it isn't really worth discussing in this format. The most basic summation of my disagreement is that I typically will disagree with any and all blanket responses. There are a few situations where I think a blind and blanket response is valid, but this isnt one of them in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wawazat, post: 3869745, member: 35603"] I think the biggest gap between how I interpret what happened in that video or many of these shootings and how you interpret them is the mental soundness of the individual. I believe every responding officer does and should provide very clearly communicated direction on how a person is expected to act upon their arrival to avoid violence and possibly even death. If the person is informed and decides to behave otherwise, the officers focus should and often does shift to protecting the law abiding citizens in the area and themselves. At no point does the safety and well being of the person refusing clear directions trump the safety and well being of the law abiding citizens around them at that point. In the video in question, the officer at the focus of the video was not the first officer on the scene. It can be very reasonably supposed the first responding officers provided very clear directions on how the suspect should respond to avoid being shot at and most likely killed. The fact that the suspect was still shooting at officers when the subject officer arrived on scene tells me the suspect made his decision as to the outcome he found agreeable and the subject officer obliged. I dont cheer for anyone having to take a life, even though some have confused my cheers for a victim finding themselves alive and well after a violent assault as such. It is just a difference in perception of a chain of events and not worth arguing about or me making any blanket assumptions about anyone. I wont even attempt to dive into the suggestion that officers involved in a "good shoot" should be given full mandatory retirement on the spot. That is an INCREDIBLY nuanced discussion covering so many hypothetical scenarios where I would strongly disagree that it isn't really worth discussing in this format. The most basic summation of my disagreement is that I typically will disagree with any and all blanket responses. There are a few situations where I think a blind and blanket response is valid, but this isnt one of them in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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