Vic Cops open season in Vic

[Madmax]

Not sure if it's still the case but my Dad was a cop for 12 years and they were trained to shoot at the central body mass to eliminate the possible injury to nearby people, if they were caught firing at any other part of the body they would face diciplinary action......Max is this till the case?
this incident happened at a skate park so plenty of concrete for the bullets to bounce off and possibly injure or kill people up to 50 meters away...I don't really like cops a whole bunch but in that situation you just don't know what you'd do, i guess the coroner will come to some conclution that will try to apease both parties.

Yes, still center of seen mass. I believe he was yelling "Kill me, I'm going to kill you" or words to that effect. Pretty damned scary for all concerned.
Just watched the poor mother of the youngster in the teev. Poor bugger, she can't comprehend what went wrong with her little bloke. A real heart breaker all around.
The consequences for the plod will probably be up to 18 months away from their regular duties, while a brief is prepared for the Coroner. Their firearms will have been taken off them, they have been drug tested, alco - tested. It's just so easy to sit back in the comfort of our homes in the cold light of day and pontificate on what we would or would not have done, with the assistance of hind-sight.

The coppers had been dispatched to a male person, no age given, who had just stolen two large knives and was walking through a public area holding them threateningly. What happened then we will have to wait to be able to confirm.

The Coroner will investigate and make known his findings.
I fully appreciate Ray's point of view, he has just been monstered by a plod who did exactly the wrong thing. He will pay the price eventually old boy. Don't the two incidents involved - There is no nexus.

The plod don't double tap anymore. The Ron Levy shooting on the beach in Sydney stopped all agencies double tapping when that Coroner asked the question "Would one shot have stopped the attack?" They were only doing what they had been taught to do.

One shot and assess-reassess, if the behaviour/threat has not stopped the attach another shot - then assess and reassess. If the behaviour has stopped, make the scene safe, render first aid.