Originally Posted by Maxatoria:
“Given a police officer has to account for every action from drawing their weapon to actually firing a shot is why they're very rarely used as the paperwork must be massive for a firearms copper.
Our top police firearms units are trained to special forces level as the SAS etc don't fancy being on camera when doing their work like at the embassy.
The general thing is to shoot center of mass and neutralize them as quickly as possible or if they have the possibility of being able to flick a switch etc a double tap to the spine in the neck area to ensure no chance of being able to press it.”
In case you didn't watch the video, we're talking about a shouty man armed with a stick. If at least some of the story is to be believed, he had been smashing cars up. You don't 'neutralize' somebody for smashing cars up!
It's unclear why the officers didn't have some intermediate weapon between batons and firearms, like pepper spray or a tazer. Or maybe they had pepper sprayed him, who knows?
What I think is perfectly clear is that the 'reporter' is talking rubbish, and that the officers were using warning shots to stop him coming closer to them, and they only shot him in the leg to stop him fleeing.