Another Police Shooting on Video

[HoneyBadger]

If we're going to talk about the 21ft rule, then maybe we should ask why the "threat" was in such close proximity to the cops in the first place. If they felt like they were gravely threatened, why weren't they using all that time to back up and get behind physical cover? Maybe there was a lot going on that we don't know about.


As for the 21ft rule, I think the article that Kid quoted nails it:

http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapo...-valid-Part-1/

"However widespread that contaminated interpretation may be, it is NOT accurate. A suspect with a knife within 21 feet of an officer is POTENTIALLY a deadly threat. He does warrant getting your gun out and ready. But he cannot be considered an actual threat justifying deadly force until he takes the first overt action in furtherance of intention--like starting to rush or lunge toward the officer with intent to do harm. Even then there may be factors besides distance that influence a force decision.

"So long as a subject is stationary or moving around but not advancing or giving any indication he's about to charge, it clearly is not legally justified to use lethal force against him.

"When you talk about the 21-Foot Rule, you have to understand what it really means when fully articulated correctly in order to judge its value as a law enforcement concept," Lewinski says. "And it does not mean 'less than 21 feet automatically equals shoot.'"

I just figure twice the length of my....


Car.

Wow! You have an unusually short....







car.