Quote Originally Posted by hurley842002 View Post
Let me see if I understand this correctly... Because he is a cop, by default he's supposed to be able to physically control anyone he tries to apprehend, but if he can't (his bad, should have had more "skillz"), and is about to be choked out, he's not justified to use lethal force?


Seems you have an extremely flawed sense of reality here, and my opinion to you is, if you CCW, you should get some more training on the legal side of things, because your use of force knowledge is lacking...
You missed the point completely, but I'll buy you a beer so we could talk and better explain myself.

I have been choked out to blackout, and quite frankly I would have dropped a nuke in order to get out of the situation.

The officer, hopefully, will make a full recovery. He's doing a dangerous job which I'm not suited for.

I'm sure he's a great person and family man. His life is going to be turned upside down, and psychologically messed up, for a long time. I'll be the first to support him.

My question does relate to lethal force.

In the last two years, two of my cousins each lost a child to unjustified use of lethal force by LEO (as determined by the courts).

So enlighten me, what is the threshold for use of lethal force by officers, and how are officers trained? Are they screened for psychological 'red flags' ?