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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I'm not positive, but snipers are given the ROE before taking up position and those ROE usually specify they can only kill armed adults, not "shoot perp on sight." The sniper doesn't get to decide if it's cool to shoot. The shot has to be within the ROE. At least in this case, a sniper could have saved the homeowner's cabin and spared the gov't. a large insurance settlement and lawsuit.
And the commander could very well be looking at some civil rights charges by the feds. Who knows what Holder will do on this? It's not like he's apolitical in which federal laws he chooses to enforce.
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I'll ask my LEO tennant (former sniper who has probably killed more than everyone on this thread combined, outside of war) what his take is. I already know, but I'll ask. And now I think you've hit upon much of the second guessing...political motivation imo when I sense the "double standard" (not you Rick). "Wanted dead or alive"...this country isn't the utopia that some might like to believe...not now, nor has it ever been. We "can" be some savage bastards if provoked and have a long history that backs that statement up...