@Horace said in Hatchet Man:
@89th said in Hatchet Man:
@George-K said in Hatchet Man:
https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1537108242345742343?s=20&t=IOf92vUV5ndt7rsfStm7ag
Some observations:
If the guy wanted to hurt the cop, he could've just crushed him with his car. Weird.
The cop was lucky the guy had an issue putting the car in park at first. That bought the cop a few seconds.
Great reaction speed by the cop. You can tell it took 10-20 seconds for the adrenaline rush to impact his speech, he even said "don't fire!" about 30 seconds later, which made no sense since the guy was on the ground grunting to breathe.
Tough to be a police officer these days, I can't imagine the constant stress of a threat being anywhere.
Yep. I assume I’m not the only one who watched that video thinking about ways in which the cop could be blamed for unnecessary use of force.
Crazy people do crazy things. Do not try rational thought with them, you'll be very disappointed. And hurt.
Standard training is that if somebody is coming at you with a lethal weapon - and a hatchet is certainly a lethal weapon, probably better than a knife (takes less skill to kill you) - you negate the threat. That's a fancy term for you shoot the perp, and you continue to shoot until he is no longer a threat to you or anybody else. In this case, the only excessive force would be if he continued to shoot the man after he lay on the ground.