The particular five foot long gardening tool that Gainer charged at the officers with is known as a scythe.
I really don't know what more the police could have done except hired Robert Muldoon from Jurassic Park and had him use the tazer guns he used on the Raptors "SHOOT HER!!! SHOOT HER!!!"
No problem in life is improved upon by calling police.
Who called the cops?
Was it the family?
If so, maybe the family got exactly the result it wanted.
A 15 year old boy with a non firearm. I am sure the cops “feared for their life” and tasing was not an option.
Unfortunately the police are trained to always go for the kill if they are going to shoot. This is one of those cases where they could have shot the kid in the leg and ended the confrontation with little danger to themselves.
21 foot rule.
The particular five foot long gardening tool that Gainer charged at the officers with is known as a scythe.
Who was the genius that let the 15 year old get ahold of the bladed “weapon”.
Nowadays, the police aren’t your friend.
My Grandmother, in 1972.
“The deputy retreated, and Gainer chased the deputy in an attempt to assault him with the bladed end of the tool.”
The 15 year old was adult sized and charging with a “long bladed garden tool” that was easily capable of killing the deputy. I spent 25 years frequently getting assaulted by violent members of our society with mental problems that hoped to kill me. By the grace of God none of them succeeded. The people here who believe that they could have handled this situation better... likely not had a full-on psycho nearly killing them.
I feel much sorrier for the deputy than this adult-sized “troubled teen’s” family. If you charge at an armed police officer with a big knife with a 5-foot handle capable of lopping off his head, you should expect to die.
“There are no situations so dire they cannot be made worse by the addition of a cop.”
Yeah. There's more to this story.
The person welding the scythe is moving pretty damn fast. No way I can fault the cop for shooting.
Self defense . Pure and simple.
What’s the link to the families go fund me page?
It was too late at that point. The family should had their kid institutionalized until he’s heavily medicated. If that’s not possible, then maybe he’ll have to stay at the institution for life. That’s what we used to do in the old days.
In the 90’s the Nashville PD got called to a house because of a “mentally deficient” woman named Jackie Brooks. They get there, she comes running at the cop with a knife up and in a threatening position. He unloaded his 9mm into her, and she FINALLY fell. There was a big bruhaha about that, and then the cops all switched to 10mm.
Sounds like suicide-by-cop.