On June 2, 2018, Gus Tousis, a cocaine dealer, was shot and killed by a DEA agent. However, the justification for the shooting was fishy. The agent who shot Tousis claimed that Tousis rammed his truck into him and he shot back in self-defense. What’s fishy is that his car didn’t sustain any damage and that there is little information on the injuries of the agent. The current article describes the family demanding answers and the DEA policy, which states that an agent can shoot if the agent thinks the vehicle “poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.”(DEA policy, Keilman). This is different from police policies, which require police officers to get out of the way if they can.
Should the DEA policy about shooting into cars be changed?
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