Ye, in my town we have weekly police reports involving people trying to walk out of Wal-Mart with stuff. One guy tried it with several flat-screen TVs, while the old scam of walking in, picking something off the shelves, and trying to “return it” without a receipt has re-emerged. The perps are all from nearby Newark NJ, where gibsmedats haven’t paid for anything with their own money since about 1965.
Some will say that the cops did not need to shoot this guy. Well, when it’s all going down, the cops don’t have the luxury of knowing what kind of weapons he is carrying.
Being that close to the cops, what if the suspect had a gun and pulled it out of his pocket?
We know now he only had a knife. The cops did not know that at the time.
Anyway, even if 2 cops could physically overtake 1 guy with a knife, it only takes 1 poke in the right place with that knife to kill someone.