I think I agree. Cops should have let the guy have it when he wouldn’t drop his knife. Bean-bags just infuriated him further.
I would have a hard time faulting the cops for showing restraint when EVERY media outlet is looking to demonize them for daring to shoot black men. Even clearly dangerous ones.
18 SHOTS? People, as I have been saying for years now, THE POLICE TRAINING IN THE USA IS THE PROBLEM.
18 shots - to stop a guy with a knife? ONE well-aimed shot by someone trained - was what the situation called for.
Instead, the police defaulted to their “spray the area with gunfire and swiss-cheese the target” training, with predictable results.
The hostage MIGHT have survived a stab wound to the neck - but she sure wasn’t gonna survive the “swiss cheese treatment”.
ITS. THE. F%@&!. TRAINING. STUPID.
Cops in Europe are trained differently, and get different (read: less lethal) results.