Quote Originally Posted by Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World View Post
No.
Sgt Douchepickle shot him because he felt threatened, as he had the right to. There is something called escalation of force. In this situation I would assume Sgt. Douchepickle had applied it and yelled at innocent man in the street to stop what he was doing and had yelled the warned that he was going to shoot before I actually did.
Since this is in fact a hypothetical situation, let's go further down the rabbit hole and assume Sgt. DP did nothing of the sort, and instead flipped his trout on said smoking civilian without following protocol. Let's not have a 'oh he wouldn't do that' discussion because frankly that kind of trout does indeed happen from time to time.