There is no such thing as non-lethal shot placement. One of the basic rules of gun safety is that you do not point your gun at anything you don’t want to destroy.
If you don’t want to kill someone, you don’t use a gun.
Firearms training doesn’t teach you to do some sharpshooter type “Shoot the gun out of his hand” shit. You’re trained to shoot center mass and shoot until the threat stops. That said, it’s really hard for me to believe that he was somehow a threat after a bunch of dudes kicked the shit out of him, then still a threat after shooting him in the back 5 times. That was a murder. Straight up.
I’m sure they’re instructed, in a very obtuse way, to make sure all shots are kill shots.
There is no such thing as non-lethal shot placement. One of the basic rules of gun safety is that you do not point your gun at anything you don’t want to destroy.
If you don’t want to kill someone, you don’t use a gun.
Firearms training doesn’t teach you to do some sharpshooter type “Shoot the gun out of his hand” shit. You’re trained to shoot center mass and shoot until the threat stops. That said, it’s really hard for me to believe that he was somehow a threat after a bunch of dudes kicked the shit out of him, then still a threat after shooting him in the back 5 times. That was a murder. Straight up.
It’s not uncommon in firearms training programs to note that it’s harder to be sued by a dead man
I mean, when you fire a dozen bullets into a person at close range, it’s really really hard not to get a kill shot in