The Lt. is correct. You are not. The reasonableness standard applies to the individual involved. Was the individual's fear of death or SBI to himself or another reasonable in the situation the individual was facing, including any justifications or other extenuating circumstances? If so, then lethal force is justified. It hinges on the individual involved, because the extenuating circumstances can involve the individual and his/her physical characteristics, the physical/psychological characteristics of the other person, the surrounding or precedent circumstances of the encounter, and a host of other issues.
I understand that you might have studied this and are citing the close-end text book rationale. However, that's not the legal rationale when it actually comes to real cases and real situations.
There is far too little known or shown in that one video to guess at justification or other circumstances. If there is another video, I'd like to see it.
We are not far from being in agreement. It may, in fact, be a mere matter of semantical ambiguity as to the legal meaning of "reasonable" in this context. In the law, reasonable means by an objective (not a subjective) standard.
