With regard to former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper’s chilling account that then-President Trump wanted troops confronting protestors in Lafayette Park to “shoot them in the legs”, I’d love to hear someone ask the follow up question whether Trump understood that people would fall & get hit in torso.
Or just that people can and do bleed out from leg wounds too. The idea that shooting someone in the arm or leg isn't a use of deadly force needs to go away.
I used to work in 911. Any leg wounds, but particularly above the knee, is potentially VERY serious. It's not all that hard to wound the femoral artery, and it would be easy to bleed out before help arrived.
And death outside some could be crippled, some could be in chronic pain for the rest of their lives, all would be traumatized to some degree, some with full-fledged PTSD.
