New grand jury indicts Charlotte police officer who shot unarmed man

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9. Standard training is to keep shooting until the aggressor ceases to be a threat

Note I am not referring specifically to this case.

As long as the aggressor continues to be a threat, a police officer (and civilians for that matter) is trained to keep shooting until the aggressor stops being a threat. The objective is for the aggressor to stop being a threat, not necessarily kill him, although the aggressor dying from the wounds is often the result.

For a documented case of a person who continued to attack even while suffering a wound he would have died from even if he was in a first class trauma unit see the 1986 FBI Miami shootout. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout#Suspects

Michael Platt was shot 12 times, including one wound that was considered unsurvivable (see Part II of the below link)

Here is a forensic analysis of the FBI Miami shootout: http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs7.htm