"provide an oral warning to a person against whom deadly force is intended to be used before discharging a firearm, if providing the oral warning is safe to attempt."
I think we should go more in depth on when this is safe to attempt and when it's possibly not.
And for Point 1, are tasers considered firearms? What about batons?
Technically neither of them are firearms, nor do they pose the same level of lethality that firearms do, but obviously using tasers or batons come with their own risks. On the other hand, I'm fairly sure their use in de-escalation means that proper training to avoid those risks is a standard part of what we're establishing in clauses 3 and 4.
"Safe to attempt" here applies chiefly to the officer(s) and whether they are under threat from the other party, though I can imagine the other person being in lethal danger from elsewhere in such a situation.
(Bear in mind too that the broad confine of this bill means we are giving a fair bit of latitude in allowing law enforcement units to reform their existing protocols in matters like verbal confrontation, where my own knowledge is fairly limited and certainly academic.)
