Now imagine you are an armed officer, you confront a suspected armed villain with your weapon shouldered and looking at him through your sights “STOP, ARMED POLICE” you shout. Now you see the villain is not brandishing a gun but may or may not a carrying a gun.
But he does not stop, instead runs towards you, maybe you are blocking his only means of escape, or not.
What do you do?
Let go of your weapon and try to physically apprehend them, risking them maybe get hold of your weapon.
Do you just keep shouting stop and watch as they run at you or past you making there escape?
Or do you shoot.
Another thing that interests me is normally armed police don’t travel alone and if you have several officers who have there weapons trained on you and you raise a weapon I would expect to be shot by all of them. So when shots fired are from just one officer is it because he alone was in a position to take a shot or did he get it wrong.
Similarly, if I was brandishing a gun and it was just one officer who was positioned at the time to open fire, I would expect to be shot more than once by that officer.
So some one shot several times dead (or not) by the police seems expected. But shot dead by the police by a single shot seems strange to me.