"Bare Fear" - an insufficient level of fear that does NOT justify deadly force - for there was no "eminent threat to life" - as there might have been if a firearm was pointed by Ashley in the officer's general direction at that time.

The threat of death or harm must not only be EVIDENT, it must be POSSIBLE to achieve, and must be articulated as such.

Example: If I threaten your life with words and then brandish a knife toward you from across the street BUT I don't advance toward you, you cannot justify pulling a gun and shooting me because there was no way I could complete the threat from that distance. (You also can't legally thereafter "close the distance" between you and he to convert the threat to "eminent", thereby justifying shooting him.

Conversely, if someone is in near proximity and merely climbing through a broken door with no weapons apparent that could harm you, even if there's a loud and angry mob on the other side of the doors, you cannot simply shoot them because they "might harm or kill you. That's Bare Fear. Not a real threat to life. Like being afraid of the dark and shooting blindly at no threat at all.

This was either an intentional, planned execution, a "staged" event, or he's just a chicken-shit M-fer that should never have control of a firearm, or be in his position.

"Bare Fear" - an insufficient level of fear that does NOT justify deadly force - for there was no "eminent threat to life" - as there might have been if a firearm was pointed by Ashley in the officer's general direction at that time.

The threat of death or harm must not only be EVIDENT, it must be POSSIBLE to achieve, and must be articulated as such.

Example: If I threaten your life with words and then brandish a knife toward you from across the street BUT I don't advance toward you, you cannot justify pulling a gun and shooting me because there was no way I could complete the threat from that distance. (You also can't legally thereafter "close the distance" between you and he to convert the threat to "eminent", thereby justifying shooting him.

Conversely, if someone is in near proximity and merely climbing through a broken door with no weapons apparent that could harm you, even if there's a loud and angry mob on the other side of the doors, you cannot simply shoot them because they "might harm or kill you. That's Bare Fear. Not a real threat to life. Like being afraid of the dark and shooting blindly at no threat at all.