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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (802688)	8/19/2014 1:15:04 PM
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IF the cop's life was in danger, then six shots was reasonable. The number is not important - you shoot until the threat is eliminated or run out of ammo. Cops aren't generally very good shots under stress - they only get so much practice and things happen rather quickly. Here's a story of cops firing 84 shots after being shot at once and the guy lived after being hit 14 times. nypost.com Two Harlem cops yesterday fired a staggering 84 shots at an armed thug after he squeezed off one round at them — but the punk incredibly survived and was charged with slaying his sleeping kid sister and trying to kill their mother, authorities said. The 3:30 a.m. explosion of gunfire terrified residents near 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. “It was like a shootout in the movies!” said one shocked tenant of the Polo Grounds Houses. Murray, 28, suffered 14 bullet wounds during the mayhem after refusing police orders to drop his .22-caliber “Saturday Night Special,” officials said. “He would not go down,” a law-enforcement source said of Murray. The uniformed cops — a sergeant and police officer — unleashed the barrage of bullets from 70 feet away. They each reloaded their pistols twice.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (802688)	8/19/2014 1:22:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1580142

So far, most of the evidence suggests the cop's life was not in danger. Your question was why Michael Brown had to be shot six times, which assumes you think one or two shots would have been OK. But if the cop's life was not in danger, then even one shot would be one too many. Bottom line is that you're moving the goalposts. IF the cop's life was in danger, then six shots was reasonable. Otherwise, no shots would have been. You assume the cop was a solid, stable individual. In fact, the cop was recently divorced......looks 40 despite being 28........and may not be that competent. Most people stop when they are shot. Therefore shooting your victim who is unarmed six times looks to be an excessive show of force and suggests an unstable cop who is freaking out.