Today’s Post of the Day involves a video clip forwarded to me by a member of the Law of Self Defense Community (thanks, Frank S.!) and provides a good opportunity to illustrate a particular facet of the element of proportionality—one of the five elements of a claim of self-defense—particularly in the context of differentiating the continuum of force as it exists, or not, with respect to deadly force versus non-deadly force. I’m going to caution …

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The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has released, under court order, the body camera footage of Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Wells, who stopped accused ISIS knife attacker Ismail Hamed the old-fashioned way—by demonstrating once again why it’s not a good idea to bring a knife to a gunfight. Hamed now stands charged by Arizona authorities with aggravated assault and terrorism. (As reported by AZ Central.) The events took place on January 7, but the body …

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Today’s Post of the Day involves the police response to an armed robbery by a career criminal in New York City two days ago that resulted in the death of a police Detective and the wounding of police Sergeant, as reported by the New York Post and other news sources. As it would turn out that the robber’s gun was a realistic-looking fake, both police injuries were obviously the result of friendly fire from the …

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This Post of the Day is on a shooting in Cleveland OH in which an armed citizen took it upon himself to intervene in a troublesome traffic stop, apparently absent any request to do so, and ultimately fire four rounds at the suspect as the suspect drove away. Many people have been wondering whether that armed citizen didn’t run a substantial risk of being shot himself by the police officer. After all, the officer already …

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