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Originally Posted by mapuc
And you're are correct sir, aiming after a suspects legs is not as easy as I thought it was.
My former comments was based on several hours of tv-documentaries about the Danish police in education, work in the field and the latest 5 years event-where three or was it four suspect had been hit in the leg Thigh I think it was.
Markus
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If it's a static situation, in good light, where the suspect is standing still and the police have a good clear shot and a wounded perp doesn't pose a threat, maybe they would try to take him down in the leg.
But when it's night, and the perp has been punching you, grabbing weapons off your belt, is running like an NFL linebacker and then turns and takes aim at you with maybe your taser, which means if he tases you he could walk right up and take your service weapon and shoot you, or maybe it's a .38 revolver you missed when you conducted a non-cooperative pat down: in this situation just shoot the fool.
There are thousands of cases where black people interact with the police every day in the US and nothing goes south because most black folks are intelligent, reasonable people. The ones we see getting shot are the knuckleheads and criminals (in most cases).
It's like the 7:45 morning subway commute. The train arrives at the designated time, people file in and take their places, the door closes and the train begins to depart the station. The guy who comes running up late and misses the train, well, he missed the train, everyone else seemed to have no problem.