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disko - here that behavior would almost certainly be regarded as a major threat. That distance is close to what we use here as a sorta baseline, the ''Tueller drill'' - and that distance can be covered in about 1 1/2 seconds!!
I hammer is maybe not quite as potentially lethal as say, a knife, but one blow received to the head could well prove fatal. Any one of us would very likely if armed draw and shoot - and even then time would be against this from the leather.
Chances are an LEO here would challenge and - have hand on gun as the threat or lack of it is unknown and already suspicious circumstances have been reported. We civilians maybe would act similarly tho of course would not be the LE in that scenario.
If however charged by someone wielding any substantial weapon and no place to retreat then lethal force would I think be justified. It would be after all an attack - attack = threat. The perception of threat level would be up to the courts but time for decision-making is short - very short.
Your case - and the excessive force decision sounds totally out of order. What was the guy supposed to do - sidestep and hope not to get a fractured skull? Had the cop had a hammer then maybe he could have fought at equal odds but - his gun was all he had I am sure.
I hammer is maybe not quite as potentially lethal as say, a knife, but one blow received to the head could well prove fatal. Any one of us would very likely if armed draw and shoot - and even then time would be against this from the leather.
Chances are an LEO here would challenge and - have hand on gun as the threat or lack of it is unknown and already suspicious circumstances have been reported. We civilians maybe would act similarly tho of course would not be the LE in that scenario.
If however charged by someone wielding any substantial weapon and no place to retreat then lethal force would I think be justified. It would be after all an attack - attack = threat. The perception of threat level would be up to the courts but time for decision-making is short - very short.
Your case - and the excessive force decision sounds totally out of order. What was the guy supposed to do - sidestep and hope not to get a fractured skull? Had the cop had a hammer then maybe he could have fought at equal odds but - his gun was all he had I am sure.