Should Police Use Deadly Force

A town called ferguson was once calm until it happened a young teenage boy was shot and killed by a police officer causing riots over and over where police were using extreme force and some deadly force. Police officers do use deadly force when they really don't need to at all. Police officers use deadly force because they have a heavy loadout which they sometimes are used wrong, and that some shoot before they think, and because some have grown up being influenced by movies and shows where cops were they shoot on cite.
Police will tend to have very heavy loadouts at times when they don't need it. Jason Lee Steorts the editor of The Atlantic. “ A local robbery occurred in Montana where a homeless man robbed a store officer chased …show more content…
For example a fleeing suspect sure if he was to have a lethal weapon you could shoot to wound but most just shoot and wound when they don't have two and they could just taze the suspect. This does show that there training is done way too serious and that they are trained to handle most situations to serious. This just proves even that police are getting trained to seriously they're gettin trained not very bad situations almost like it was a life and death matter. Onto Michael Martinez of CNN who investigates cases of police violence is one those cases stated “An officer shot a black man fleeing and when questioned about the incident told them that I was to wound the fleeing suspect so i thought possible shooting him in the arm would stop him but my shot missed and hit his lungs.” This show that the police officer didn't think about what would happen if his shot missed instead of aiming as well he quickly shot a missed killing the man. Also showing he didn't think about the consequences of it if he had maybe he wouldn't of shot the man in the arm but maybe the leg. Maybe police officer were being influenced by something in their