Siege lawyer hit at least five times..

[NotAllThere]

They are trained shooters, they can achieve disabling him rather than killing him...

They are NOT trained to disable, they are trained to kill. Don't like it, get elected, work your way up to senior office and get the law changed.

[Moscow Mule]

They are trained shooters, they can achieve disabling him rather than killing him. The guy is sick he needed help, he is not an animal

But that is not their training. Blame the training, not the shooters if you want to get on a horse about something.

[scooby]

They are NOT trained to disable, they are trained to kill. Don't like it, get elected, work your way up to senior office and get the law changed.

and dont join the army or police!!!

[BA to the Stars]

They are trained shooters, they can achieve disabling him rather than killing him. The guy is sick he needed help, he is not an animal

He is beyond sick now.

IF he hadn't started shooting, IF he had put the gun down he may well be alive now. Only himself to blame, why should some innocent passer by suffer because he is sick and he has a gun.

[Advocate]

Yeah my understanding was that pulling the trigger indicates that the intent of the officer is to kill.

There's never any "shoot to wound" poncing around.

If the trigger's pulled a kill should occur...you should only really moan if they fire off a live round and no-one is killed as that's quite clearly a mistake.

[Sockpuppet]

They are trained shooters, they can achieve disabling him rather than killing him. The guy is sick he needed help, he is not an animal

All my mates who served in iraq used to use the motto: Its better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.

[DiscoStu]

They are trained shooters, they can achieve disabling him rather than killing him. The guy is sick he needed help, he is not an animal

Don't be so bloody silly. An injured man's still able to shoot people. If he's presenting mortal danger to other people (which he clearly was), then the priority of the police should be to protect Joe Public, which they did very effectively.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

One less lawyer is not a bad thing.

WHS

Sad for his family but as soon as you start waving a gun (or even a replica) at the Police, you can expect to be shot dead. I feel sorry for the coppers, actually

BTW I don't feel the cops have the right to shoot unarmed electricians.

HTH

[DiscoStu]

WHS

Sad for his family but as soon as you start waving a gun (or even a replica) at the Police, you can expect to be shot dead. I feel sorry for the coppers, actually

BTW I don't feel the cops have the right to shoot unarmed electricians.

HTH

Unless they're the thieving bar-steward type that'll spend a day doing something they could do in an hour. In that case I think it's perfectly reasonable.

[NotAllThere]

WHS

Sad for his family but as soon as you start waving a gun (or even a replica)

Or a table leg in a carrier bag.