She should have been immediately tased. Out of three officers surrounding her at what looked like sufficient closeness, none did so. Are New York City Police prohibited from carrying tasers?
You want to get close enough to taze that???!!
Fatal mistake.
I heard that they did try to tase her. The way she was swinging her arms around looked like an attempt to keep the barbs from hitting her or break the wires.
LE did deploy tasers first per the article and this effort had no effect on the killer. It is LE policy that if one officer deploys non-lethal force like a taser, another officer is backing up with lethal force like a gun aimed at the suspect. This suspect was displaying two deadly weapons and had already used them. There is no shoot to injure or shoot in the leg nonsense; all firearms training is aimed at center mass for many reasons. The mother is grieving and also stupid, but the media publishing her dumb comments to enflame the ignorant public is contemptible.
Tasers were attempted twice without effect. When she charged them, two officers shot her.