What I hate is the attitude that we should be grateful that the police did not kill in this particular instance instead of demanding that police not kill and firing the relevant police chief who failed to train his men to avoid the use of lethal force if police do kill.  You just don't get it.  Your suggestion that merely not killing warrants job well done appreciation demonstrates clearly and blatantly that the norm is to kill.  The lesson that life is cheap and expendable is learned by all.  Your praise of police for not killing instead of demanding routine tactics aimed specifically at avoiding death, demonstrates how civilians learn to little regard the lives of anybody who gets in their way.

The ballistics of shotgun pellets are well known to those who care to obtain the information and to those who regularly use them.

From your comments, it is clear that you condone casual killing of those who get in the way on the grounds that the police get scared.