LE Shooter of Escapee Says He Was Aimed At

[Speedo66]

A news reports now says the Federal LEO who shot and killed the first NY prison escapee to be captured recounts that the convicted murderer pointed his weapon at the officer before he was shot. The first reports just said the escapee refused to drop the shotgun he was holding when he was shot.

Regardless, NY law permits the use of deadly physical force by a peace officer to prevent the escape of a person convicted of murder. Federal peace officers have state peace officer powers in NY under state law.

Here's the new article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/n...at-agent-officials-say.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0

 

[Tirod]

Details about a shooting usually take time to surface as the news organizations are really at the mercy of the PD releasing information. Unless a participant goes out of the loop to talk about their experience. Which is what the press is trying to do with the Twin Peaks shooting in the face of a complete gag on anybody there.

We will never get all the details in the first story, and, in fact, it's actually a rule of combat at the higher levels of staff - The First Reports Are Always Wrong. No doubt the messages getting received by Command in the first stages of the Battle of the Bulge didn't indicate it was a major offensive - the Germans certainly were doing their best to prevent telegraphing that.

Violent incidents never get all the details right in the first report. The person accumulating the data doesn't have an omniscient perspective with a comprehensive overview. All they get is a slice of the picture - same as a witness at an accident. You have to gather up all the perspectives to recreate what happened, and analyze all the evidence to back that up.

Hence the frustration by some who would like an open forensic analysis of the front gate at the Waco compound. Too bad that significant piece of evidence seems to be missing.

Moot point for the escapees, their convictions on violent offenses already withdrew the protection to be arrested non violently. They had earned the "shoot on sight award" and under the law doing less would be endangering the public, who has the higher Constitutional protection.

 

[Robert]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=472825