Doesn’t seem a good shoot to me. I’m the mother of a deceased mentally ill son. Lots of feelings here.
I am a police officer AND the father of mentally challenged son.
It’s a tragedy and I am firm believer that no shoot is a good shoot. No one wins.
However, if my son came at me or my wife, or any other innocent, with a knife, I would not let him stab them and if that meant shooting him, then I would do so.
And I would be destroyed forever afterward.
I don’t blame these officers and they will have to live with this shooting for the rest of their lives.
There are two environments that mentally ill people probably shouldn’t hang out or get themselves into: military and college. Between the stress, back-stage theatrics, and day-to-day pressure...neither would be helpful to this kind of person.
In this episode, cops report the kid as alcohol-driven. It’ll be a month before the medical report draws real conclusions. My suspicion is that for some reason, he went off and consumed a lot of booze and got himself into a student-to-cop confrontation. I’m not quiet buying into the mental breakdown thing yet. If just consuming a lot of booze qualifies for a mental breakdown....then we have five or six million people nightly who do this.
Me too but freepers love it