Will someone please tell Darren Wilson

[Lee-Lee]

7. So you've been in that situation? I have

As a police officer during your training you are extensively put through scenarios testing your judgement under stress- including "shoot/don't shoot" tests.

"Shoot/don't shoot" drills are done to make some get used to asking that exact same question. Because if you choose to shoot, you have to assume the worst case scenario will result- death. So when asking "am I justified to shoot" you are asking "am I justified in using deadly force".

It's done and it's drilled into your head that you are accountable to every decision and you had better be justified in making it, but you better make it without hesitation so that you take too long and you or a bystander gets hurt or killed.

I've been there. Every time my taser came out, the thought process going there was "is this the best tool, am I using it in a way that doesn't increase risk to me and the others involved, is there legal justification for this level of force." Every time my gun came out it was the same thought process- one standard for pulling the gun out, another for actually pulling the trigger.

The entire time you are in an encounter like that as an officer your mind is a balance of "what do I need to do, what can I do under the law"

I would love to take a bunch of you into a training facility and give you pistol with simunitions and put you into high-stress scenarios to show you just what it is like and give you some perspective.