Interesting thought.....case law and natural law don’t require attempting less lethal when facing a legitimate threat of death or serious bodily injury.
So you are saying you would want me to take a greater risk to my life than the law says I must.....I won’t do that.
As a person who has had a knife pulled on them at arms length...more than once...its very scary and having seen teasers fail at arms length several times I won’t be risking my life on that chance.
I will point out again...look how closely the dead crazy man falls to the police officer....at his feet is where he ends up.
There was zero margin for error in that incident. That officern is extremely luckiest to have not been stabbed or sliced up.
You and others are proposing best practices under best circumstances an overlaying them on rapidly evolving real world incidents.
Their are three people in that relationship...two officers and one crazy man who wanted to die.
I would be asking more questions of the dead man’s family and close friends how THEY failed before I would be blaming the police.
That crazy man was playing out a fantasy in real life....he set the cans down and set the stage for his passion play.
I don't give a crap about that. Climbing trees with a chainsaw (what I do upon occasion) is over five times as hazardous as being a police officer. Fishing is ten times as hazardous. We don't pay tree climbers and fishermen $200,000 a year with early fat retirements to take those risks. You don't want the risk of that job, then do something else.
\ So you are saying you would want me to take a greater risk to my life than the law says I must.....I won’t do that.
Fine. Quit. We'll find somebody who does.