Police groups criticize Biden suggestion that cops be trained to shoot knife-wielding attackers ‘in the leg’ - News Summed Up

Police groups criticize Biden suggestion that cops be trained to shoot knife-wielding attackers ‘in the leg’


Police groups are criticizing a suggestion by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that cops, facing a knife-wielding attacker, should be trained to “shoot ‘em in the leg instead of the heart” – with one describing it as "misleading to the point of being deceitful." “There are a lot of things that can change,” Biden said, regarding police training. “People think ‘oh you shoot them in the leg and they’re going to go down’ and they’re not going to go down,” he said. “It is a harder dynamic to execute, all officers are trained to hit center mass, you’re not trained to hit an extremity,” he said. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APPBut should Biden win in November, the demand may be something that cops have to deal with sooner rather than later.


Source: Fox News June 02, 2020 20:48 UTC



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