News4JAX spoke with law enforcement experts to learn how situations such as the fatal exchange that happened between a man and police officers in St. Augustine can escalate so quickly.
The St. Augustine Police Department reported an officer-involved shooting in the area of South Dixie Sunday evening. A suspect was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. No officers or deputies were injured in the shooting.– The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly shooting involving St. Augustine Police officers that happened Sunday evening.News4JAX spoke with law enforcement experts to learn how situations such as this can escalate so quickly.
James Brown is a retired Jacksonville police officer who served for over 30 years. He said while officers don’t expect to ever encounter Sunday evening’s situation, it’s certainly one they’ve trained hard for. “Anytime officers are responding to calls for service, they have to take into account that the information they have initially can change quickly as the situation changes with the individual,” said Brown.According to video footage, you can see the situation escalated rather quickly when the man ditches the gun and starts running toward the officers with two knives drawn.
News4Jax also spoke with Dr. Laurence Miller, who has extensive experience studying these types of situations and authored the book ““The training is you do not use deadly force unless it’s absolutely necessary. Most people would agree with that. But if it becomes necessary, then the goal is not to harm the person not even to kill them. It’s to stop them,” said Miller.According to the St.
Typically, the Department of Law Enforcement probes local police shootings. We reached out to them, but our calls and messages have been unreturned so far.
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