SAN FRANCISCO -- About 30 years ago, Los Angeles Police Officer Eric R. Fleming was chasing a juvenile through yards and jumping fences when the teen produced a weapon.
"I could have shot him, probably should have. It would have been a good shoot," Fleming recalled. The officer pulled out his own weapon, knowing the fleeing youth had many more bullets in his TEC-9 semiautomatic weapon with an extended clip than the police... (continued)