Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1568501)

The term is minimum LETHAL force. In other words, just enough force to kill someone but no more. It's possible that in some instances a person might survive minimal lethal force.

If a person is attacked and feels that their life is in jeopardy, they may shoot their attacker. If that stops the attack, then they must stop shooting. If the attacker is lying on the ground and the threat has obviously been stopped then the shooting must cease.

If in that example the shooter got up and shot the attacker while he was lying on the ground it would be considered excessive lethal force.

Originally Posted by Steve9930 (Post 1568523)

Very well said. I remember reading an article that in many cases a person will survive being shot. To many people watch two many movies where the person shot immediately falls to the ground and is incapacitated. The video of this shooting shows real life. The officers did a good job on the investigation and the shooter was lucky it was all caught on video.

Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 1568554)

In a lot of Police shootings, the officer almost empty their pistol, rapid fire until the perp is on the ground. Very difficult to fire once and see if that worked.