Ol argedco luciftias
Well-known member
I should have said this earlier. A very important detail is thst Petti's gun was a Sig Saur P320. The old saying, "Guns don't shoot people, people shoot people." This specific model the P320 is basically the exception to this. After this pistol was adopted by many parts of the American military and many different police departments, there have been many examples that are highly studied and documented of this pistol going off by itself without pulling the trigger. It is a defective design. Dropping it, hitting it, shaking it, or knocking on the back of it can make it fire without touching the trigger. I believe that what happened was that this gun could have likely accidentally fired on its own when the officer was removing it from Petti's holster. And at the same time, the other officers are watching Petti reach his hand for his holster where he did have the gun half a second earlier. All they know is this guy has a gun, he is armed, he is fighting them, and a shot went off. So they have to defend themselves. This all happened in a second, they did not have time to think or plan or react to do something differently. I believe that this is what happened, and the whole situation was an unfortunate accident. But at the same time, he put himself purposefully into that situation and it seems to be what he was trying to have happen. "Suicide by cop" is a real term for a reason and it is pretty common.
