Houston Taqueria Shooting: Legally Justified Killing or Simply an Execution? [More]
Yep. If he’s going to be hanged, the kill shot is what will do it.
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A Question of Overkill
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It might come down to training. It will depend what training he has received in his life.
I had a training officer say: “if you have to shoot someone, make sure you kill them, even if you have to reload.” That was not correct, but it was the training we had at the time.
Odd that he would be held to a lower standard If he was a cop, with that sweet sweet qualified immunity on his side.
Right. Because ignorance of the law is NO EXCUSE — except for those in charge of enforcing it.
A lot will hang on what the Mdical Examiner finds or is told to find. IF the guy was already dead at the time of the coup de gras, then that final round was not a “kill shot”. It could be some other illegal action, but not a kill shot. Per the timeline we’ve gotten, that ninth round was fired only two seconds after the eighth. Not a very long time inan intense fast breaking situation. He also could have seen, or believed he had seen, something else that may have promtped him to fire Number Nine.
We will have to hang tight and see, first, what the grand Jury decides. I wuild certainly NOT want to be in his shoes.