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You sir are very wrong. I used to manage a Jail and before that a mental hospital. These people can be managed, safely with proper procedures. Not once in 25 years did an employee have so much as a bloody lip. There is NEVER an excuse for shooting a mental patient in the back especially if he is more than 15 feet away from you. In this film the perp was at least 30 feet away, that leaves plenty of time to shoot if there is an attack. It isn't like they were in a hury, they had been there for 4 hours and the guy hadden't attacked anyone, someone got trigger happy, I hope they pay for it for a long time.
In this particular event the perp should have been tazed and bean bagged into submission on the ground there is simply NO excuse for what happened. It was obvious to me the perp didn't want to hurt anyone he just wanted to be left alone. I know he couldn't be left alone but capital punishment was not warranted.
These people have mental problems, they are still humans.
So these clients would have been handcuffed,including upon arrival.If our clients had been so restrained we would never have had some of the incidents we had.
and before that a mental hospital.
So these clients would have been properly medicated and perhaps even restrained as well.Again,see above.
Bottom line...the guy in question,unlike your prison clients,*wasn't* in restraints during this incident nor can we be certain that he was properly medicated.In fact,I'd be willing to wager everything I own that he *wasn't* medicated with anything but at least one of the following:ethanol,cocaine/speed/meth,heroin.
A lifetime as a prison guard or as a psych hospital staffer doesn't expose you to everything that one sees in a big city ER.And I'd also wager everything I have that it doesn't expose you to everything you see as a big city cop (I'm assuming that Albuquerque can be labeled a "big city").