Civilian & Officer
Self-Defense
The self-defense standard does not care what the defendant wore to work, but the analysis must: civilian and officer cases carry different training baselines and different records. Both get the same discipline.
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What this covers.
Within this engagement
- Civilian self-defense
- Police-officer self-defense
- Defense of another person
- Reasonable belief of imminent harm
- Threat assessment on the totality of the circumstances
The incident record, witness statements, any video, and for officer cases the training file, weighed on necessity, proportionality and the reasonable-belief standard.
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