I didn't like the tone of the reporting regarding whether drowsiness and other real-world factors could have contributed to it.
Many soldiers drowned in canals in Iraq.
I am 99% confident that a risk assessment was filled out, signed, and briefed with death listed as a potential consequence...
It is very similar to the ROE and use of force policy that soldiers have to live by.
There is even quite a bit of the law of war that is applicable to the ordinary fighting man.
It is part of being a professional soldier.
What is your immediate action on seeing a man leaving a hardware store with only a hatchet and no bag being quickly followed by a man saying "stop, thief!"
Say you are 21' away on the sidewalk.
I know I'm thinking buddy has a fire to get going. Or the invasion is near.
What the **** would he need a hatchet for?
Reasonable doubt that he was stopping a forcible felony could easily be established without audio from the camera. He could be guilty as sin. However, the state has to disprove all reasonable theories consistent with the defendant's innocence.
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