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Originally Posted by PINeely
What people forget is that if I'm a cop and someone goes for my gun and hits me in my car, and I'm assuming he would have killed me had he actually gotten the gun, I now have to wonder what he might do to anyone who gets in his way while he's trying to run away from me. Semi-irrelevant point though because Brown was shot from the front.
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+1 Excellent point.
Even if the threat to the cops life is diminishing as he retreats, he's clearly proven that nothing is off limits to him, and he is about as dangerous and unpredictable as you can get. The threat to everyone else in the area is now going thru the roof. At that point, if he failed to obey commands to freeze, you could justify shooting him in the back as he got farther away from you, just to protect the other innocent citizens around.