I haven't watched the video yet, but based on your email I'd say the officer would be Corporal Kyle Dinkheller, killed in the line of duty. The suspect fled the scene with an abdominal wound, managed to elude police for the night and was captured cowering in the morning. This took place in Georgia if I am not mistaken. The suspect was a survivalist/conspira​cy type.... and obviously unstable.

That is correct sir. I have received several responses from the good Dr. and he stated that he should have fired the minute he saw the stock of the weapon in the suspects hands regardless of the legal and moral implications. He is so full of himself in several of the e mails he keeps stating how any cop worth his salt would agree with him and he has been praised by cops and prosecutors alike.

Anyways guys like this bother me knowing that he trains people with his mentality.

That shit is wrong in many ways. I would NEVER give him a dime. The worst part is he probably does get some leo as clients. Just think If it were your Father/Brother or family member in the video. And what the fuck is a "four gun combat master".

Four gun combat master: That is someone who has taken all four disciplines of frontsight classes several times (at a price of $2000 each) to qualify for the test at the end that you can only take once per class. I think it mostly means "$_$". The owner calling himself a four gun combat master is kind of a moot point. That is like the people who wrote the first SAT test taking it and scoring perfectly....

And yes, I do not like arm chair quarterbacks. I still have not watched this video (since it was posted here), though I remember the dash cam of the incident quite vividly. Nobody should ever discredit a persons choice to refrain or delay firing. Videos can be great informal tools to help educate on potential situations, reactions, and the like, but it is extremely foolish and disrespectful for a person to try to assume they have the golden solution to a situation they never experienced.

I remember an instance (very foggy, don't remember all the details) but a younger man had a handgun in a mall, an older gentlemen who had a CCW permit approached and tried to talk him down, and was killed. Unfortunate, but it's a personal choice. The elderly gentleman held out hope that he could find a peaceful resolution and the younger man would be able to live out a life. People can armchair quarterback things all they want, because when you are watching a video or reading a news report after the fact, you have the benefit of knowing what is going to happen. Law enforcement officers, or anybody in that situation with a CCW do not have that luxury. They don't have the ability to watch a video seven times before acting and say that a man should have fired, since the suspect ended up firing as the video progresses. Some like to give humanity the benefit of the doubt, and hope - hope that they can find a solution to a situation that doesn't end with another human bleeding out on the ground. Others... have perhaps a narrower perspective on life and even fantasies about situations and legally taking a persons life. These are the ones that give us a bad name.

Taking a mans life should be a last resort no matter the situation. A person risking their own life to try to save another (even when that other is perhaps a criminal, or off their rocker) is commendable in any situation - even if they are not the paramedic on the scene trying to resuscitate, their effort to try to avoid killing in the first place should never be discredited in this way and carries no less honor. In both the situation at the mall, and this situation, both ultimately ended with the death of good men; though, in countless other situations, it has resulted in everyone walking away with a heartbeat. Discrediting people like this and the avoidance to take another life because it isn't always successful is no different than discrediting CPR because it doesn't always work, and can injure.

That said, my deepest respect goes out for officer Dinkheller and his surviving family.

This is so disturbing that someone apparently has never been put in a REAL LIFE shoot no shoot situation actually has the balls to armchair someone who has taken the oath to protect and serve. As FoxTrot stated above he is a four gun combat master which means what? He is a master of combat even though the firearms training he provides comes from fabricated scenarios because he has no real ones he can use himself due to the fact he has never been put in that situation. You can only induce so much stress on the firing line. And no matter how much stress you think you have applied to a student, it will never equal the amount experienced in a real life shooting. This guys credentials to me are no better than a master chef or a master mechanic. In fact I would probably put those above him just for the fact that they are actually doing what they trained for.

There is a very big difference from training to protect your life and training to protect the people you are sworn to keep safe. Maybe the Dr. (I use that term loosly) should actually attend a police academy so he quits giving his high paying students the wrong information on use of force.

As you can see this has struck a nerve with me as well just as the original email author. We as law enforcement are faced with the unknowing of whether or not we will be faced with such a scenario everytime we go to work. And it is too often we read or watch the news regarding a fellow officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Even as a LEO, I never second guess (armchair) the officers actions as I was not there grasping on to my last breath while being shot point blank with a high caliber rifle. The only thing we as LEO's can do is to learn from someone elses tragic encounter. Now, for the founder of front sight, to rip apart someone who has paid the ultimate sacrifice should not go without ridicule. You have are nothing but a car salesman who is willing to do anything to move merchandise.

And to Deputy Dinkheller's family that will eventually come across this piece of s*@t video, I apologize that society today is more concerned on making a dime and not having good morals and ethics. I apologize also that someone who is associated with the firearms and shooting community would even think about utilizing your father, son, brother or uncle for personal gain while you re-watch and hear the slaying of your lost family member.

And all of this for what; just to sell a few houses or a membership for a firearm training resort that has changed from training to real estate to cult.

To all that serve foreign and domestic putting themselves in harms way so a P.O.S. like this can use our loss's for his gains..... Be safe!

J. Paletta

Maybe I should just bite my tongue because I have never been involved in a shooting. I do not know what it would be like to go through this and I hope I never have to find out. I have had people act similar to this on traffic stops and adamantly disagree with how Deputy Dinkheller handled the situation, I will leave it at that.

As far Piazza goes, I too feel he is like a used car salesman, and for the most part, I agree with what was said to him in the letter.

However, these videos are a useful teaching/training aid. Especially those of us in the line of work should watch them. Especially the officers who start to become complacent.