[kcvl]

Jewel Hall told the Albuquerque Journal that her son struggled with a mild form of mental illness through the years but was able to live on his own and did have an apartment in Saginaw.

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And you know who was paying for that. Dear media, he wasn’t homeless!

[Tupelo]

One crazed man with a knife plus six cops plus adrenalin pumping at highest levels plus a double tap philosophy plus fear (maybe) = overkill.

[tflabo]

Seems like there could be a better way to subdue a knife wielding suspect and all those cops around. Why not fire some sort of netting around him and then run it around in a circle to wrap him all up. Seems a bit excessive gunning him down like that surrounded by multiple police.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Reminds me of how Capone would mow people down.

[Alberta's Child]

Three are some good, objective concerns voiced here on this thread. But I'm the kind of person who thinks that if you're facing a bunch of cops with their guns drawn and you ignore their commands to drop your weapon, you've really forfeited whatever considerations you might have been accorded as a human being ... and nobody has any reason to complain about how the situation was handled.

I'll go back to a bit of sage wisdom I once heard from someone who knows a lot about these things:

"If you want to eliminate all of the troubling aspects of police shootings, just let lawyers respond to these kinds of 911 calls for a few months."

[Vendome]

Knife, paper, gun.....

[Dennis M.]

It looks like he was walking away. There is no way to justify the shooting.

[Squawk 8888]

What, there were no dogs around?

[ExxonPatrolUs]

This is the kind of event that will get libs wanting the death penalty again in Michigan.

[Kickass Conservative]

I wonder if any of the bullets hit the BAR the guy must have been brandishing.

Those Brownings are worth a mint nowadays.

[Lancey Howard]

This was flat out murder.
It reminds me of a similar incident in Washington DC a few years ago. There was video of that, too.
It is sickening beyond belief.

[DoughtyOne]

I may be a little slow on the uptake, but I wouldn't stand in the street in front of six armed police officers with a lethal weapon and continue to yell at them and threaten to take violent action.  I wouldn't ignore their calls to drop my weapon, and the only moves I would make would be to drop it, and assume the position.

You know, I hear countless reports about how badly police officers treat members of the minority community.  And then members of the minority community act as if they don't know what they are going to get, if they don't comply with officer's directives in life and death situations.

Oh my poor son.  Oh my poor husband.  Oh they were such sweet people.  Oh those police officers, my boy only had a long knife in his hand, a loaded gun, a baseball bat...

I hate to be the one that has to break it to these folks, but good sweet innocent people, don't confront police officers with these things.  And the people who do, we'll they catch hell for it.  Who knew?

Come on Freepers, if you haven't already, pencil yourself in.  Lets get this FReepathon over with.  Only 9.7% left to go.

[bikerman]

only 46 must have run out of bullets. Maybe they can put in an order for more before the government buys them all up.

[Lazamataz]

There was no need for that. The perp was not approaching an officer or a civilian, and was in no immediate threat of escape.

Pure homicide.

More and more of this stuff out there.

[Eye of Unk]

Reminds me of what a future world may be like, most of the Police become like Judge Dredd, they are judge, jury and executioner all in one.

No arrest, no jail, no lawyers for you.

Its no wonder all the agencies are stocking up on ammo, enough to shoot everyone at least 30 times?

You see its like this, the police are finding that “less lethal” just isn’t working so far, the perps are shrugging off taser, bags, pepper spray. Plus these perps may have some real firepower with a converted full auto firearm.

Or they may have an IED or bio weapon, so the police will react, I cannot judge this action right or wrong, but I could predict it will happen more often.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

bonnie and clyde gunned down