Yes, we should get rid of the dinky 21-foot rule.
Cops should be able to blast away at a guy a block away who is reaching for his cell phone, and the cop should be able to claim he was “in fear for his life.”
Correct.
It’s pretty hard to find any case of a cop shooting a civilian where somebody here won’t give them the ‘benefit of the doubt’, or ‘wait until all the facts are in’, or blather ‘why don’t you become a cop then’ or some such jackboot licking pontification.
I’m all for dispatching Bad Guys, with no remorse. But any use of lethal force had better be accompanied by bodycam footage that would convince a skeptical juror. Period. No exceptions.