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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
If someone is crazy enough to come at you with a deadly weapon, when you are holding a gun on them, and you have already used a taser on them, then you need to shoot. Only in the movies does it take one shot to put someone down. If you do not hit them in the heart or the head, then it takes on average 4 shots of .45, or 7 shots of 9mm to lower the blood pressure enough to take a determined attacker down. I'm not totally defending the cop here, but it's not a clear cut situation the other way either.
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Less than 1% of the world population can take a full face pepper spray and wipe it away and then try and attack the sprayer.
That escalated the situation from Force to Deadly force. The cop with the dog did the right thing.
To release the dog would have gotten him hurt or killed and the bad guy most likely would still have been dangerous.
The second shooter will be reviewed. But from that video " He was getting Back Up " and the second shooter is covered as well.