He had a gun in his hand and thus remained a threat.
As I said in my first post, the hand with the gun never came up after the initial volley. It seemed the perp grabbed at the arm with the gun after the first shots were fired as if that arm was hit. It also appeared later on, the perp tried to reach for the gun in his left hand with his right hand and could not do it. He appeared to be dazed and quickly going into Hypovolemic shock, again, a dead man walking. I understand the cop in the heat of the confrontation, continuing to shoot. I did not see the sense of the last two shots as the perp was on the ground laying on the ground....completely still.
There are differences in the encounters that involve police vs civilian shootings,such as pursuit, arrests, interventions in fights, but I do not see anything in the video that would not apply in a civilian shooting. What might it be?
Again my statement was
"Police shootings and the average SD shooting are very different scenarios". A generic statement about police shootings vs the average SD shootings. But, since you asked. What didn't apply in the video, was that the officer knew in advance that there was a rape in progress and there was a man with a gun, at that particular place, that was the threat. The cop was also wearing body armor and had driven a ways to get there and had time to think what his first move would be. None of what, one would have, in a average civilian SD scenario. The fact that he ignored the victim and retreated, putting the victim directly in the line of active fire from both sources is probably not something I would have done. I probably would have tried to get the victim up and behind cover with me, as it seemed in the tape, there was time initially to do so. I also probably would have gone to the other side of the car or the corner of the building for initial cover, giving me a more direct line of fire to the perp and not having to shoot directly over the victim, who could have attempted to stand at any time. IMHO, the average civilian, under that much stress, is not going to be able to put that many shots, that quickly, safely past the victim. I also wonder, if it were to be determined that one of those last two shots, with the perp lying on his back on the ground, were the killing shot, and the scenario recorded as it was, if it wouldn't have led to issue with a civilian SD shoot.
All of this is moot. We all have the advantage of watching the scenario unfold while sitting safely at our computer. We can boast about how we would have done it or we can chastise others for their own opinion. We can claim a bigger gun with more bullets would have been better or claim that one, better placed bullet to the CNS, even with a micro-caliber, would have done the job quicker and safer. But, we'll never know., because all of it is speculation and....opinion.