The CO has almost certainly never been involved in a shooting of any kind, but has probably been involved in use-of-force in his job. He's been trained and re-trained about what's allowable in his job, and has seen the ramifications when others use force. He's probably never known anyone who had to deal with an off-duty use of deadly force issue (and probably not on duty either, when it comes to deadly force).gigag04 wrote:The license holder was also a corrections officer, and probably not afriad to throw down a good punch.
In THIS scenario, that may have been the best move - if you deal with big violent thugs all day and a little guy comes at you and you can effectively get a good punch in to stop the attack without shooting, take that approach.
And so, there was that moment of hesitation that kept him from shooting. He reverted to training; he was probably reaching for his body alarm, and would have used a fire extinguisher or mop wringer if one had been handy.
Just FWIW, here are the instances where I can use deadly force, as a (federal) CO:
1. To prevent loss of life or grievous bodily injury
2. To prevent escape
3. To prevent destruction of government property that could lead to furtherance of loss of life, grievous bodily harm, or escape
4. To regain control of an institution
Kevin