Firing a ban bag at someone hardly counts as "unreasonable force" if you've already shot him. Everything I've seen on this one (from any side) sounds like the cops got it right. They've quite rightly taken a lot of stick recently for being trigger-happy / overreacting, but not this time.

I've always been of the belief that even if the suspect has a gun (which many of them recently haven't had), cops shooting them is ONLY justified if the suspect is actually using it, i.e. shooting at cops; even in the worst case scenario, preventing one dead cop doesn't justify killing multiple suspects. In this case, he was, so it's justified.

It's all too easy to forget that the incidents-gone-wrong recently have tended to involve the same few cops over and over again (Humphreys...), the rest are genuinely doing a good job and getting a bad rap. If only their union would realize that and stop defending the indefensible, the public relations would be much better...

The documents censor where he was shot. Guess it wasn't quite the "legs".