That's the part that got me too. Its like... I just shot you multiple times in the back. I want to make sure you die with your hands cuffed behind your back.
I can’t imagine what was even going through that cop’s mind to shoot a person who was that far away and running the opposite direction. Its not like the guy just murdered the Governor or something.
I’m not a trained police officer and I would not shoot a person who was already out of my yard and running in the street away from me. They had the man’s information. They know where he lives and works. They had his vehicle. Where was he going to go?
You can’t be sure if someone is going to die from being shot, if they will stop running or fighting, or if they have a lethal weapon hidden on them.
Unless someone is knocked unconscious (shot in the head) or faints, it usually takes a minute or a few to die, sometimes hours.
As an earlier poster noted an individual shot by an M2 (.50 cal) continued to operate for some short time. An M2 can blow someone’s leg off and send their body flinging 20 feet in the air.
I knew a guy who was shot in the chest with a .45 in an elevator, and went on to live a normal life. Another young man I knew took five .38’s in the torso and recovered (similar to this incident - 5 hits out of 8 shots). I saw a guy take nine hits from a rifle (.223) and continue running around, although he died in a minute or two.
A well known tough guy in the neighborhood threw a hefty beating on a guy and left him bleeding with broken bones, only to be shot dead while walking away from an opponent he thought was subdued, but who had a concealed gun he finally got a chance to draw.
So it makes sense to me to cuff him, as long as his heart is beating.
I was struck by the apparent cold bloodedness of the police officer. I assume that he shot him because he was upset over the confrontation and made this bad judgement out of anger and adrenaline, but I don’t really see it in the video. He will pay heavily for it.