Originally Posted By: blacksheep
ALL cops went thru weapons training yes.. and if they're gonna be carrying guns, I would hope they don't miss a slow moving target 10 feet away by a matter of feet. You don't exactly need to be a sniper for that


Dude, just drop it. There is no police station in the country that has a policy for shooting anything but the torso. This is well documented and it's not going to change. The reasons for this are legitimate.

When you wrote that the cop should have chased after him, yes, you were right on that point. He should have chased him, but he got pissed off and killed Walter Scott.

What's interesting though is that during the early 1900s it WAS policy to shoot fleeing suspects. If a cop told a suspect to stop and he didn't, the cop was allowed to shoot him in the back. Happened often.