HereWeGoAgain
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What a brilliant argument...coming from someone who has no clue regarding real life law enforcement. I'm betting you would have defended the thug had the officer been killed.
Thanks, that one worked.
But the freeze frame doesn't show what you described. He's not facing the officer at all; he's facing straight down to the street concentrating on picking up the object. As soon as he has it in hand he takes off again, and that's when he gets shot. He couldn't take off if he was already shot.
The officer starts firing while Walker is crouched facing the street and continues as he runs away. And then, perhaps his bigger problem -- he pulls his trigger seven times to his target's back. It would seem that's going for more than a disable.
You need to read up on the science of this stuff and the sympathetic nervous system. Under that stress...reactions are on a 1-2 second delay as the brain processes the stress. People like SEALS may not because of experience their system gets used to the stress.
Cops..especially rural ones like this..rarely encounter shooting scenarios. So the brain is under a stress dump and reactions get slower and very deliberate. Its why Krav Maga works in combat over fancy karate.
Anyway...grand jurys are usually given presentations on the science of how the body reacts under stress. All criminal trial jurys are given it.
And after that lesson...people understand more how that stress works...vs watching it on TV like a video game.
Kinda like you tailgating a car too close and they stop suddenly. Rarely can the brain process that sudden stress and the body hit the brake in time to stop.
Once he decided to shoot...he wasnt gonna stop for 1-2 seconds. But you're watching it all on a couch with a resting heart rate without your life at risk. And thats why you see it different than he felt it.
It's real time, I understand that. And you may have sent the command to your finger to pull the trigger before the senses can plug in new information, I get that too. But when you see your target's running away, and in the case of the last couple of shots already down, and the command to pull the trigger is already sent, you can send an additional command to your hand to move your aim above his head and harmlessly into the air. Just as if that car stops short in front of me I can veer suddenly to the side faster than I can move my foot into position to hit the brake. Because the steering wheel's already in my hand.
In other words it seems to me the sight of a target's back ought to immediately trigger, no pun intended, holding one's fire (or if it's already enroute, intentionally wasting it). That that didn't happen here raises questions about what the officer's motive was.
I'm sure you are. You're an idiot. And your post immediately before this one sums it up.
Final thoughts, because I can't stomach watching this video any more -- my concern is really not the prospect that Officer McMillin did not follow police procedure. If true that would be a problem on one level. My concern is that he did. If true that's a much bigger level.
And second, although it didn't succeed (yet), I deplore the OP's attempt at race-baiting by inserting the races of the two parties into the thread title. That's bullshit.
I had no idea you were so delicate...tissue?