Will someone please tell Darren Wilson

[haele]

43. Not buying it. It takes less effort to turn a key, slam the gear into drive

And hit the gas pedal than it does to reach down by your waist band, fiddle with the strap, and clear your weapon so you won't shoot yourself in the leg as you're pulling it up to shoot the person reaching through your window.

Heck, the police constantly advise the public that this it the best tactic to save yourself from a car-jacking whenever there's gang activity, which is much the same scenario that Wilson supposedly found himself in. When someone is coming through the window of your car, hit the gas and get out of danger.

Wilson could pull forward a few dozen yards, stop, call for back-up, then get out and be clear if he wanted to pursue the issue on his own. If not, he had a good description, and there's another warrant that they could hang on someone.

He's also less likely to hit an innocent bystander by using his car rather than his gun.

That is, if things went down the way Officer Wilson says they did. Even if Wilson was telling the truth, he didn't follow basic common sense safety procedures and his impaired (through basic stupidity, roids, anger, fear or whatever) actions directly lead to his pulling the trigger as many times as he did and killing Micheal Brown in this incident.

Criminal Stupidity/Manslaughter at least.

Look, I went through basic police training (military) back in the late 1970's/early 1980's as part of my duty requirements. The first thing they told me was to be proactive rather than reactive. To think, observe, and plan your moves before you engage with someone.
The gun remains holstered until you decided there might be a need to kill someone with it. As my instructor said "You never, ever waive it around like a D**k extender to assert your authority. Some bigger d**k will take it from you before your shorts get stained."

Haele