Weapon Retention and Secondary Deadly Force Options:
In class we discuss that a weapon-retention situation is the most likely scenario
that warrants deadly force as the appropriate level of response to a
deadly-threat. This story exemplifies several things:
1. The
victim-officer faced an sudden immanent deadly threat and in fact suffered
serious bodily injuries.
2. The
victim-officer did not have (or was not trained in) a secondary deadly-force
option(s) to neutralize the threat/attack. (Had another LEO not been present
and armed; how many people might have been injured and or died?)
3. Re-action
time: This attack occurred in a confined/close-quarter area with other LEOs
present. Yet a restrained suspect was able to attack – disarm – and shoot the
victim-officer before anyone else could process and respond to the dynamic and
evolving threat. (I would be interested in knowing how much time elapsed between
initial active aggression and neutralization of the threat).
Inmate
killed, officer wounded in Ga. court shooting
The cuffed inmate managed to grab
the detective's gun and open fire, and a second officer returned fire
“…suspect managed to get a DeKalb County police detective's
gun and shoot him before another officer (shot and) killed the prisoner/suspect..”
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