Cheaper to shoot him.
Yup. Now I have another dependent for the next 20 years. Taxpayers would have been better served with one shot to the head. The cop is lucky to be alive - it could just as easily gone the other way.
Hard to know what was going on in the officer’s mind. He took a risk not shooting him, but I am sick of these attacks and the attackers getting off so easily by sacrificing themselves. Now we have the perp in custody. We have a chance to find out his motivations.
Perhaps there is info to be gotten from him. Why not compromise and kneecap him?