Trained to shoot to kill

I know there is a so called trained to shoot to kill but lo and behold, to shoot another individual 5 times amidst a scuffle and you are an officer, there must be something that went wrong. Shooting 5 times means the person with a gun does not know how to aim to his target in motion even though he was trained for this. Indeed, the community or the outside world feels sympathy for the dead victim but what if that is your very own child? Will you accept a trained to shoot to kill reasoning? What if the dead victim is your own child (an elementary student) with a knife and you are a parent and an officer, and since you are trained to shoot, you will kill your child? I am just expressing my opinion about the news of a fully functioning teenager with autism who was shot five times by a school resource police officer. I feel bad because a fully functioning teenager with autism means he had gone through a lot to be in his current state and will just be killed in school just like that and by an officer for that matter. There will never be a recovery for the parents of the boy.

On the other hand, am not saying, I detest what the officer did. Based from the news story, he left the hospital on the same day he was admitted, perhaps just couple or less hours. It only means, his wounds are shallow and these could just be knife scratches. And these are not life-threatening to counter his five times shot against his opponent (or there might be more shots released in the air in trying to aim a good shot). The officer must have a taser, why did he not use the taser? As for the knife, who owns the knife? How big is it that his so called stabbed wounds only warrant a couple or less hours of stay in the hospital? Do we believe the officer who claimed the student has a knife? Who inflicted the wounds, the officer or the student with autism? There are many lingering questions here as the outcome was not positive. The officer may not mean to kill the student with autism but he did not use his judgment here. He killed an individual and that is a fact.

I know the police organization in general. I had been there.