[SML] NYC Stagehand shot by police

[Dave Vick]

On Thursday, May 19, 2016, Ray Gibson via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

>  Or bullets to the legs or something...


That only works in the movies. Anyone who has any training in the use of
deadly force, be they military, police, or civilian, knows that if you have
to shoot, you shoot to stop the threat (and no more), and the best way to
do that is aim center-of-mass. Fancy leg-shots taken under pressure and
accompanied by massive adrenaline dumps do not work; chances are FAR
greater than even that you'll miss your target and endanger someone or
something standing innocently behind the threat.

This is one incident I feel the NYPD showed great restraint.



-- 
Dave Vick
Asst. Carpenter / Flyman; "Annie" On Tour '15-'16
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