Posted August 26, 2016 9:00 am by Comments

By Massad Ayoob

It is commonly believed that deadly force can’t be used on an ostensibly “unarmed man.” Reality shows otherwise.

Take Case One for example, which happened in December of 2013. Officer Donald Hubbard, 42, of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department was the first to respond to a scene where an enraged passenger had beaten a taxi driver bloody.

After a foot chase, the suspect turned on the officer and, in the course of a violent hand-to-hand struggle, gained the upper hand. The assailant pinned the officer to the pavement and began a mixed martial arts-type “ground and pound,” breaking several bones in the officer’s head and face.

Unable to stop the attack by other means, Officer Hubbard managed to get his service pistol out of its holster and shot the merciless aggressor twice in the chest, killing him. The assailant turned out to be a 26-year-old off-duty firefighter with a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 percent.

Within two months, a grand jury cleared Officer Hubbard in the shooting. The beating he had sustained was so severe that he was still scheduled to undergo reconstructive surgery at that time.

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Source:: Tactical Life

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