What she schemed to do is not the question. Sick and stupid people do things they should not do all the time. No?
The questions is, did the officer fail to secure the suspect when he repeatedly had the opportunity? No he did not.
Did the officer fail to follow basic standard procedure? Yes he did.
If the officer had followed basic common sense procedure he never would have needed to shoot her.
No?
Yes, they do, and sometimes it costs them their lives as it did in this case.
The questions is, did the officer fail to secure the suspect when he repeatedly had the opportunity? No he did not.
I think you mean to say that yes he did fail to secure her when he repeatedly had the opportunity. I have already stated that I expect that he should have done that too, however not securing her does not then give her the right to charge him with a knife. Her doing that most certainly gave him the right to shoot her regardless of any procedural mistakes he may have made.
What was he supposed to do, say oh I should have cuffed her when I had the chance, but since I didn't do that, I'm just going to stand here and let he stab me in the chest?
Did the officer fail to follow basic standard procedure? Yes he did.
From what I have seen so far, I would agree with this, however I am going to wait for investigation results before making that determination for myself. It is possible that we do not have all necessary information at this time.
If the officer had followed basic common sense procedure he never would have needed to shoot her.
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If he never found the knife on her, she could have still done what she did even cuffed, if he cuffed her front side, or if she was slight enough to slip cuffs from behind.
Cuffs are no fool proof guarantee that a suspect is not a danger. It really depends on how dangerous a suspect wishes to make himself or herself. From what I could see of this young lady, she darn well chose to make herself quite dangerous, so here we are.