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Is this purely a lack of training, or is it idiocy? Why would you shoot someone lying down with his hands up?

• badlucklottery 10y ago
  >Is this purely a lack of training, or is it idiocy? Both. Why would someone even have their weapon pointed at a non-hostile person instead of in a safe direction in case of a negligent discharge? That shows a staggering lack of training and forethought.
• mywittyname 10y ago
  It's not a lack of training. In several of these similar cases, they officers were found to have acted in accordance with their training -- which is why they aren't disciplined. I've seen videos some of these training exercises. The "dangerous" situation exercises seem to favor escalation to deadly force as soon as viable and encourage the trainee to look for a reason to escalate. One was a domestic violence situation, where, when the trainee is told, the appropriate response to a person reaching into the sink is to use deadly force, since there may be a gun in there. Which is why, I think, any situation results in a successful lawsuit or settlement should automatically be considered a violation of training policy.