re: #216 Teukka

And if not the law, at least the training of police officers. Police shootings, especially fatal ones, are rare here in Sweden. And they are trained to try their best to de-escalate a situation. More than once, police officers have been quoted as saying “If I have to pull out my service firearm, I have failed.”
Legally, police have the right to open fire without warning. However, it is customary here to fire a handful of warning rounds before firing for effect. Also, primary aiming points are extremities (i.e. non-lethal in majority of cases), but there are levels of threat when Swedish police will use directly lethal force to end it.
Also, swedish police is rolling out trials of tasers as we speak.

During the recent unpleasantness here in Hamburg* a cop shot a warning shot at a guy who was beating up another guy and refused to stop.

That warning shot is being investigated.** It’s just so sweet! And I don’t want to discourage that scrupulousness! I don’t want them slipping down a slope to anything like the US! It’s still adorable, though.

*I was not here, as I knew that at best it would be locked down by security, and at worst it would end in a nuclear fireball. And I didn’t want to be in the same city as That Asshole.

**Of course, the full police response is being investigated in much more detail, as it was… sub-optimal.