On point one, I disagree. A full review should be made of every shooting and if the officer is shown to have acted in accordance with law/policy, that's it. The last thing you want is an officer who has previously been forced to shoot someone to save their/someone else's life, having to hesitate to protect life and…

Well, there was a witness, the nephew she was threatening with the gun she was waving around.

They definitely should have asked questions of the armed person first. They could have consulted their pocket DSM to properly classify her mental disorder, then taken the time to institute an effective treatment. I mean, people with mental disorders who pull triggers end up firing bullets, but that's not important in…

This is sad, but what is really supposed to happen when someone is threatening people with a gun and refuses to put it down? They get shot. It's how things work. Yes she was old, but she was also in control of her body and brandishing a weapon. My husband's grandmother (also a Texan) is even older that this lady was…

If a cop is going to shoot someone they are always told to neutralize the target. It's the nicer way of saying shoot to kill. Essentially they are supposed to discharge a firearm until the target is on the ground and depending how fast they shoot they could easily shoot a few bullets before a target falls.

I think too many people here just want to be mad to listen to practical things like that. No one here cares if her gun could have been aimed at neighbors, children, infants - it doesn't matter. Fools think guns are meant to be used to force a "surrender". No, they're deadly force. Tasers are meant for surrender.…

What??? Where are you getting this??? People don't die like in movies when they get shot. Notice how in the story she was able to be transported to a hospital before dying?

and I've seen several videos of people shot many times that keep moving long enough to kill someone else. Most notably was a guy that was shot 90+ times and still killed a cop. So that's the training. If you're going to kill, kill. And again, fuck the militarization of our police.

Please keep in mind that my training is military, rather than police. I don't know exactly how cops are trained as far as using deadly force. What I do know is this: in the military, we are trained shoot until the target is no longer a threat. When you are in a shooting situation, adrenaline is pumping, and time seems…

I'm about as anti cop as you can get, what with them trying to act like a military force with tanks and shit. Fuck that. But...With what is presented here... i was taught that if I'm shooting it's only to kill. When I'm doing that empty the entire magazine reload and keep going. Might sound harsh, but if it really is…

I am okay with the police landing multiple shots. It would make me more concerned if they fired multiple shots and only landed one. If the goal is completely immobilize the threat, it's not reasonable to expect an officer to fire once, see the reaction from the person holding the gun, and then fire again. I agree that…

As I said in my original reply, I was not addressing whether or not the policy is correct. I was just stating what the policy is now. And yes, a little old lady being shot 5 times sounds horrible and tragic, which it is.

That's genuinely just not how training for law enforcement goes. A law enforcement officer always, always shoots for center of mass. It is the most important piece of information they learn in training as to how to not end up dead when facing someone holding a firearm.

If Gram-Gram was waving a gun around and not listening to the police then she messed up. Getting shot is kind of what happens when you do that. Maybe suicide via cop though?

Haha, the cops are supposed to just take a few shots to the chest? Do you think they they wrap kevlar around their arms and head. That is fucking stupid

So you think the cops should have let her shoot them first? Kevlar is no protection if someone shoots you in the head or a major artery in the leg.

Because they are taught to shoot to stop. And this isn't the movies where the cop can land one perfect shot that stops a perp cold with no threat of return fire. So they are told to keep shooting until the threat is neutralized.

Do people really think they can wave a gun at the police and not get killed?

I hate to be a stickler, but I believe the real title was "Tina Turner - Whaaaa?"

And any TRUE fan of the Mad max films would know that it wasn't called "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome". It was called " That God-Awful Piece of Crap That Never Should Have Existed". Obviously, you're not a real fan of the films.