“Unfortunately that is simply wishful thinking. And it is wrong.
No, it is not wrong to wish that multiple deputies could subdue a mentally disturbed woman with a knife rather than shoot her dead.
Nobody will question whether there could have been some other way. However, I don’t think it is unreasonable to do so.
The sample ladies at costco must be off duty seals. I mean the ones where I shop might talk you to death but they sure aint gonna chase you down and cut you up.
It not wrong to wish for a better world where police have the skills to de-escalate any violent situation.
It is wrong to expect that police can control a psychotic knife-wielding assailant without use of deadly force. They just aren't good enough to do it. Very few people are good enough to do such things without getting seriously injured or killed for their efforts.
Movies and books give a false impression that disarming an attacker is a matter of a few quick moves artfully rendered in slow-motion video. It doesn't work that way in real life. In particular, if you have to forcibly take away a knife, you are going to get cut.
Ironically, an experienced and violent criminal probably would have dropped the knife on sight of police - and lived to talk about it.