Holdup victim shot, killed by police

I don't know about Tennessee but in Georgia you can use deadly force if your home or car are being broken into, or a felony is being commited.

However, you don't run out of your house and down the street to keep shooting at them as they drive away. The point of shooting is to stop the threat, not chase it to the next county.
As much as I would like to beat the drum for the store owner I can't because he was wrong. Anyone of his shots could have hit a civilian in the street.
I also question the 40yd thing but in any case, cops are (suppose) to be highly trained with their firearm so this shooting was justified.

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As sad as it is - I agree with Lawdog in that this was a good shoot.
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[This message has been edited by George Hill (edited April 24, 2000).]
 
This is getting off topic but it's related to the issue of "friendly fire":

Yesterday while I was watching the movie "Heat" on video, I had to wonder how the patrol officers responding to the bank robbery knew that Al Pacino's character wasn't one of the bad guys. He was running down the street, away from the scene of the crime, wearing the same clothes as the robbers (a suit) and carrying an automatic rifle without any sort of visible ID except a badge on his belt (which was covered by his suit jacket).

I've decided that if I ever have to use deadly force in public (a very remote possibility, fortunately), I'm going to make a special effort to look innocent and non-threatening when the police arrive.
 
I think some LEO on this board have gotten the impression that I tend to side against them. I do not. I do believe in justice, and firmly believe the rule of law must be preserved, even- perhaps especially- if the infractors are tasked with preserving it.

While I would shed no tears for society to lose two scumbags- and I mourn for the citizen, who apparently just tried to live the American dream- this was a "good" shoot. As bad and sad as it is. The LEO were right, and I would have done the same thing in their shoes.
 
Ed Brunner said," If the officers had come upon a fellow officer blasting away, would their reactions have been the same?"

Are you serious?

A fellow officer involved in a shoot out is a little different than a guy you don't know from Adam "blasting away" at a fleeing vehicle, while standing in the middle of a parking lot!!!

As someone has already pointed out, off-duty officers have been shot and killed by on-duty officers in similar circumstances. Its hard to tell who the good guys are when they aren't wearing a uniform and refuse to obey commands to drop the weapon. I've been in just such a situation, involving an undercover drug unit officer from another agency brought in by our drug unit to make some buys. All I saw was a man holding a gun on another man, he was about a pound and a half away from permanent ventilation when one of our drug unit guys intervened. Talk about FUBAR!!!

Until you've been there, you just don't know..,


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"There is a common thread between competition and combat shooting - only hits count" Keith Cunningham
 
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