Ferguson: too much or not enough?

[Jackalope]

If you have to shoot at all, put one out there,

There isn't a police force in the US that trains its officers to fire a single shot.

Disclaimer: I am in no way defending the actions of this particular officer.

What pappy says here is true. They train to shoot until the suspect is down. If you're justified in shooting once, you're justified in shooting until any threat has ended. "Warning shots" are considered application of deadly force exactly the same as shooting a suspect as many times as it takes to take him down. Firing a warning shot is pretty much prima facie evidence that you *don't* feel that your life, or anyone else's is in any credible danger, and that the shoot is unjustified.

That being said, this smells to me like an unjustified shooting.