Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Always Best To Be Calm and Wait For The Facts Date:   8/27/2020 8:13:30 AM

I asked a friend's son about this and he said they are trained to empty their gun if they are forced to use it.  It's called deadly force for a reason.  Basically the officer didn't know if he was reaching for a gun or a knife.  Nor did he know if the perp was under the influence of drugs that would have made one bullet ineffective and could have put the officer's life at risk.  Bear in mind this is the end of a longer event where the perp violently resisted arrest before ignoring their commands and heading to his car to get who knows what.  Also bear in mind how those 7 shots only took a few seconds.  Once he was forced to shoot his training took over.  So no, in this case how many shots had nothing to do with it.

So there's a lot of reasons why we should wait and see what actually happened and not rush to judgement.  And I can tell you one thing for absolutely certain, if you or I did exactly what this guy did we too would have been shot by the officer.  It had nothing to do with his skin color, it had to do with his bad decisions and he would be alive today if he had obeyed the officers.  This is his fault.  Whether the offier used excessive force is something that will play out over time.