I recently retired as a police sgt with a large police agency. I cant say if the shooting was justified or not as I wasn't there. My hope is the truth comes out regardless of politics or media coverage.
As for shooting to injure and not to kill is something for the movies. As soon as you draw your gun and pull the trigger you are going to be judged as to your justification to use deadly force. I was always trained to "shoot to stop", Unfortunately the "shoot to stop zone" is the same as the kill zone. I feel fortunate that I never had to go through a shooting death investigation.
Again, my main point is simple, find the truth and go from that point on. I only hope that the politicians don't tarnish the investigation either way.
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