By the way, they pepper-sprayed the guy. It just annoyed him. Tasers pack a lot more punch, and area hospital emergency rooms are typically no further than a mile away if the tasered perp goes into cardiac arrest.
I am unsure how close an officer must get to a suspect to use a taser? If it is relatively close... couldn’t that have risked the officer more than shooting this guy? My point is that from the article... it seems like the suspect was very mobile. If one officer, for example, tried to move in closer to taze him.. he would then be in the “line of fire” from the other officers. (thus, risking his own life in attempting to taze).
If he was hopped up on something, a taser might not have the same effect as someone who isn’t.
If someone is coming at an officer, ready to stab him, the officer has EVERY RIGHT to kill the sh!thead.
The less thugs on the streets, the better off for us citizens.