From Massad Ayoob by way of American Handgunner Magazine. This is a case of a Police Officer being cleared multiple times of a shooting incident, but still wound up being prosecuted by the U.S. Dept Of Justice.
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Ayoob Files: Furtive Movement:The Richard Palmer Case
Situation: The suspect is reaching for what looks like a gun in their pocket. It looks like “shoot now or die.”
Lesson: The rule is, “You don’t have to be right, but you do have to be reasonable.” You can be cleared four times over in a shooting and still be criminally charged. If you’re a cop criminally charged, we hope you belong to a union or fraternal organization.
A furtive movement shooting occurs when someone appears to be going for a gun, gets shot for it and turns out not to be armed. Sometimes the movement is a deliberate faking of the menacing gesture — to intimidate a victim or to achieve “suicide by cop” — and sometimes, it is unintentional.
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https://americanhandgunner.com/our-experts/ayoob-files-furtive-movement-the-richard-palmer-case/
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