She wasn’t shot because she was suicidal (paranoid schizphrenics are rarely suicidal), she was shot because she was advancing on an officer with a knife, making herself a threat to him and the other officers.
This is what happens when law enforcement intersects with the violently mentally ill population, somebody dies. This time it was the mentally ill person.
The problem is that the dangerously mentally ill cannot be locked up until after they have assaulted or killed someone.
Liberalism kills in many ways.
“she was shot because she was advancing on an officer with a knife, making herself a threat to him and the other officers.”
In this case that is what happened. Many other times the suicidal person is only a threat to themselves but still get shot. And I’m not referring to suicide by cop.
In one case SWAT was called because a man was inside his home threatening suicide. he was alone but there were reports of firearms in the home.
SWAT did what SWAT does. 369 rounds later the guy was shot, a cop was shot, and a cop was dead.
The guy never had a gun, the cops shot each other.