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Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

You'd be surprised what someone hopped up on just adrenaline can do with multiple bullets in them.

But to specifically answer your question, because they are trained to keep firing until the threat no longer exists.

From the stand point of the law, when the use of deadly force is used, 1 bullet or 6 makes no difference. The only question in the investigation is whether or not the use of deadly force was justified. Once it's justified, what does it matter how many times the person was shot. If you're correct about the 1 bullet theory, the 5 additional shots were inconsequential.

Even in self defense courses, we're taught that once you pull the trigger, you keep pulling it until there is not longer a threat to your life.

This is why training is part of the issue. The training the police need is general interaction. They've got the deadly force training down because that's what they focus their training on. That's why when a cop shoots his gun, they shoot it several times. It's engrained in them.


Make no mistake, a police officers main objective is to get home to their family. It is not to place your live over theirs. The Supreme Court of has upheld the notion that a police officer is not obligated to put their lives in danger to save yours. They are not robotic heroes nor are they power hungry racist killers. By and large, they are every day people trying to make a living. It's not an easy job but it is a thankless job. They deal with the bottom of the barrel every day they go to work. 95% of the people they deal with lies to them, hides something from them and dislikes them.