Excellent video. As a Conceal Carry Permit holder here in Az., video like this should be shown in permit training classes. I did participate with the video and realized how difficult the decision process is with-in the second or two in that situation.

The drive-by media, as Rush calls them, does not give a damn about the guilt or innocence of Officer Shelby or what Crutcher's antics put her through before she felt like her own life depended on pulling that trigger.
Me dino has seen her photo. Yeah, every day she gets up wanting to shoot some black person for being born black because she's a cop. NOT!
That thinking is not at all logical.

I don't know how many in the Gulch have actually been confronted with the possibility of violent death. It is true that when flight is not an option, then the fight instinct takes over and the senses narrow down to survival which demands quick action. Hamlet had time to think it over, a cop, a soldier, or anyone in that situation, doesn't.

You are definitely on to something. Maybe cops should set up a huge video screen with shoot-don't shoot video demos on it at BLM protest demonstrations.
At least those not into looting or being paid by George Soros may go home.

Just be polite and let a nervous cop see a pair of empty hands. You don't have to hold them "hands up, don't shoot" over your head unless the cop told me to and then I'd do it. Get on the ground? "Yes, sir. I won't give you any trouble."
If you're suspected of something, why make things worse? Especially if you know you're innocent! Better to go through the process than to star at your own funeral.

Crutcher was a very large man exhibiting classic signs of being under the effects of PCP, which Officer Shelby had been trained to recognize. PCP users can become extremely violent, and often continue violent actions in spite of multiple gunshot wounds, so she had to assume she could be subject to a possibly fatal attack. Crutcher did have a history of PCP addiction, and the drug was found in his truck.

What hasn't been well reported is the fact that Shelby had been trying to deal with Crutcher as peaceably as possible for some minutes, but he was ignoring her direction and moving toward her and backing away several times. Adrenalin had to be a factor, given she was dealing with a possible threat to her life. The result was no surprise.

Monday morning quarterbacking journalists and "race baiting poverty pimps" (to use the J.C. Watts description) have no concept of what it's like to be in a position of making a live or die decision under intense pressure.

A bad guy could also be just a stupid guy who failed to adapt and so died a death by Darwin.
Way back during 1982 I heard a shot outside my apartment in the middle of the night and heard someone run by.
I realized I left my gun in the glove compartment and went outside to fetch it.
After looking about to make sure no one was around to jump me, I approached my car.
Seemingly out of nowhere a cop car screeched to a halt and threw a light on me. No one said a word but I could see a huge for a big German shepherd looking out through a wide open window in the backseat of the cop car.
So dino at the time in his prime widely raised my arms and opened my hands with parted fingers.
The cop turned off his spotlight and peeled off. No words had been spoken at all.
I retrieved my gun and got back inside as my apartment as quickly as I could.
On the other hand I coulda had a big head, shot off my mouth about my rights, how that cop had no right to shine a light on me and went as far as to add, "Now excuse me while I get my gun out!"
I'm sure that huge for a big German shepherd would have liked the way I taste.

I remember seeing a Reverend from Arizona who was a major leader in a major protest that could be described as a BLM protest (don't remember if this was before or after Ferguson, MI). So the police invited him (and the local channel's news crew) to a live action 'shoot-don't shoot' demonstration. They instructed him in the basics of police procedures in various situations he would encounter and put him in a shock vest. The reporter was also invited to participate in the same scenarios (albeit without seeing what the Reverend results were) to see what his reactions might be. Needless to say both participants had a different understanding of what it entailed to be a police officer and the split second decisions the need to make.

When you are faced with the unknown your fight or flight response kicks in. This is not a TV show, this is reality. In real life I for one would shoot, if you are stupid enough to make a threatening move or not follow my instructions, GOOD BYE. Hard hearted? No, just looking out for me and mine. I will have PTSD afterward and always question my decision. In areas of high crime, sorry, but my go to response is that you are a bad guy.

And this is why as a citizen you don't do stupid things like ignore the police or point things at them! Acknowledge they are there and calmly and slowly talk with them. Don't give them a reason to do something you will both likely regret. They are just as human and mistake prone as you are - they just have greater responsibility.

I was once a police beat newspaper reporter during the 70s but never had any desire to be a street cop or a sheriff's deputy.
The Alabama Department of Corrections Academy and not the pistol qualification of annual training dealt with that "shoot or not shoot" training I described.
I wore a holstered pistol far more as a semiretired security guard for three different companies.
The training for each? A joke.
I was a bank guard here and there several times.
Imagine a bank guard whose experience is limited to a joke for training.
It's a reason why I conceal carry in "professionally guarded" gun free zones.
My favorite armed job was working at a Wachovia data center. Part of a foot patrol was walking among rows and rows of servers in a huge chamber for a room.
When catching gate duty, I got to see deer, turkeys and even coyotes walking by. One time I exchanged waves with someone who floated past overhead in a hot air balloon.

I have a cousin that was a sheriffs deputy for over 30 years. He had to undergo Life and Death situation training every year. They went through the drill for several days. He was a nervous wreck when he finished. He said just knowing how little time it was between Life and Death for you, your partner or the suspect was frightening. The training made you much more aware of the cues you needed to spot, the actions you needed to take and how you had to respond to various situations.
I was almost literally the way it is stated in the title of this post "To Shot or Not to Shoot.." In the time it takes to say those workd in you mind, someone could be dead from a bullet .
Think about it. The police and the suspect have less than a second to make a decision, act and live or die.

WLM riots paid for by Putin and Duggan!
That Duggan boy is one evil SOB...worse than hitler or hiltery and sorass combined.

You vicious killer! Here comes all of paid for by George Soros WLM out of towner punk thugs to burn down and loot the the municipality where you committed your planned out cold-blooded murder with extreme prejudice.



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Oh, yeah, WLM ain't being paid by George Soros. Never mind.

I could not shoot in time before I could identify the gun...in one instance it was a draw...both of us would have been dead.
and then...I shot the guy when he pulled out the phone.