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Originally Posted by Tennisnut
Hopefully when everything comes out, we will find out that Officer Wilson had respect for the law and that the shooting of 6 bullets were justified.
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If one bullet was justified, then 6 probably were. The media commentators focusing on 6 shots apparently have little knowledge of firearms and combat-shooting situations. If you are justified in firing that first bullet, you keep shooting until the threat is eliminated. Remember that with a semi-automatic pistol (now standard police-issue and bad-guy carried), six shots can be fired in a couple of seconds--in a stress situation and not having time to carefully aim. Given the number of shots in Ferguson's arm rather than his torso, the officer apparently did not have time to carefully aim. (By the way, frequently, one or two shots will not stop a determined attacker.)
I continue to find it both astounding and disturbing how many people and the media seem determined to convict the police officer of murder before all the facts are available. While we should withhold judgment on the matter for the time being, as more and more information becomes publicly available, it is looking more and more as though the police officer was justified in the shooting and that the national media has once again made a fool of itself.