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Youtube link to the incident I'm talking about:
Okay, first... Yeah, I know she was acquitted. To me, that's just proof that if you have the right jury and defense attorney, you can indeed get away with murder, because murder is what's in the video.
So, since this is Stat & Tac and not legal, what went wrong in the video and what could have been done better to avoid murd.. er, um.. Killing a person. Of course, the obvious answer of not shooting someone in the back that isn't attacking you will just have to be accepted as the obvious and left on the table.
There may be a bit of professional bias in here since the event involved a bail bonds recovery agent.. so it's a little slanted to the world of Bounty Hunters and Bail Bondsmen.
First and most obvious to me: If you know that danger is unavoidable and you decide to bring a second person to mitigate the physical threat represented by locking yourself in a room with a physically stronger individual... bring someone that might actually contribute. Your scrawny 18 year old son who clearly has no idea what to do is not a good choice.
Second: This woman has absolutely no control over the situation. She never had any control over the situation. She has absolutely no command presence. Her only options were to hope he complies or use lethal force. When the situation started to go rodeo, she should have de-escalated, re-evaluated her options and attempted the arrest some other time when conditions were more favorable.
Third: Okay, I know I said we were going to leave this one on the table, but don't shoot people in the back when they aren't fighting you and are trying to get away. Suspect wants to jump out a third story window? That's on him. You put a bullet in his back because you lied and said he was fighting you? Go to jail. Please go to jail.
Top to bottom terrible planning, decision making and execution. She's lucky she isn't in jail. I'm sure the civil suit won't go nearly as well as the criminal trial did.
And as a parting thought, Sigmas are still terrible guns.
Okay, first... Yeah, I know she was acquitted. To me, that's just proof that if you have the right jury and defense attorney, you can indeed get away with murder, because murder is what's in the video.
So, since this is Stat & Tac and not legal, what went wrong in the video and what could have been done better to avoid murd.. er, um.. Killing a person. Of course, the obvious answer of not shooting someone in the back that isn't attacking you will just have to be accepted as the obvious and left on the table.
There may be a bit of professional bias in here since the event involved a bail bonds recovery agent.. so it's a little slanted to the world of Bounty Hunters and Bail Bondsmen.
First and most obvious to me: If you know that danger is unavoidable and you decide to bring a second person to mitigate the physical threat represented by locking yourself in a room with a physically stronger individual... bring someone that might actually contribute. Your scrawny 18 year old son who clearly has no idea what to do is not a good choice.
Second: This woman has absolutely no control over the situation. She never had any control over the situation. She has absolutely no command presence. Her only options were to hope he complies or use lethal force. When the situation started to go rodeo, she should have de-escalated, re-evaluated her options and attempted the arrest some other time when conditions were more favorable.
Third: Okay, I know I said we were going to leave this one on the table, but don't shoot people in the back when they aren't fighting you and are trying to get away. Suspect wants to jump out a third story window? That's on him. You put a bullet in his back because you lied and said he was fighting you? Go to jail. Please go to jail.
Top to bottom terrible planning, decision making and execution. She's lucky she isn't in jail. I'm sure the civil suit won't go nearly as well as the criminal trial did.
And as a parting thought, Sigmas are still terrible guns.