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Originally Posted by Philbert
I'm going to side with ungawa here. The man could have shown he was not a threat by standing still and placing his hands up. Instead he ran. It's possible that he was just trying to run away, but how was ungawa to know that? He could have run to cover and then opened fire.
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Edits in bold mine.
Like I always say, police should be held to higher standards for shootings than civilians, not lower standards. That's the way it always was until recent decades.
When I find myself faced with an armed adversary, it will not because I swore to protect the citizenry nor because I volunteered for that honorable task. I will just be looking to save myself from a situation that is not of my making, and I will fail and die because I can’t shoot people in the back. People that actually came after me in the first place, unlike this situation.