Saturday night, Jacksonville, FL police officers killed an armed assailant after he shot and killed a K9 dog. To summarize, the perp almost hit a squad car and them fled. After a chase through residential neighborhoods, the BG got out of his car waving a gun. The police sent in a K9 dog to apprehend the subject, who shot and killed the dog. He then fired another shot (they don't know where that round went), to which 3 officers responded with at least 32 rounds. I have NO problem with them shooting and killing this idiot. Except that they fired 32 rounds!?!?, many of which apparently went through neighborhood houses and cars! Isn't this at best VERY POOR use of deadly force? I realize that this info I'm giving comes from the media, but I can't think of how they could fire this many rounds, at a perp standing in the road/driveway, with such reckless disregard for innocents safety. In my limited firearms training, we were trained to fire 2 rounds and reassess the threat. These cops fired 10-11 each. Do they really teach officers to fire that many rounds? I ask this because of other shootings in which a large number of rounds were fired by the cops (woman in a car sleeping with a gun in lap). Also, why would they send a dog to confront a man who is waving a gun and saying they are going to have to kill him? Seems like they should have skipped sending the dog to die and taken the perp down first (after trying to talk him into giving up). It seems like this was designed to force the man into giving up or killing the dog. It's a sad world where the cops have to sacrifice a dog for legal reasons. The report can be found at the following link:
[http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/071399/met_2b1shoot.html] Thanks, CJ
[http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/071399/met_2b1shoot.html] Thanks, CJ