I didn't see this posted thus far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8GWFqE1Als
Quote:
When authorities arrived they saw several patrons run out of the restaurant and a man armed with a 3-foot-long metal bar.
Officers say they ordered the suspect to drop the bar but when he did not comply they used a stun gun to subdue him.
When that failed to stop him and the suspect allegedly began swinging the bar at police, an officer shot the suspect.
He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Los Angeles Sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating the shooting.
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While a "good" shooting it appears, this video brings up a valid tactics & training scenario that could have ended much worse for the officer.
Officer 1 deploys a taser that is rendered ineffective by, most probably, the thick jacket of the suspect. The suspect then turns and makes a move with his 3foot bar toward the officer. The officer does NOT have out his gun and is rendered defenseless as he seems to struggle to pull out his gun in place of his non-lethal taser.
Luckily for officer 1, officer 2 has his lethal arm out and fires the initial shots rendering the suspect incapacitated and thus protecting the officer.
Tactics/training.
What if Officer 1 did not have immediate back up when arriving on the scene?
Should officer 1 have had his gun out and ready alongside his non-lethal taser, in case WHAT HAPPENED actually happened?
This became an instance where lethal was necessary over non-lethal and had officer 2 not been right there, it could have been potentially very bad for officer 1.