>>>What about bean bag rounds fired from a shotgun? Could that have been an option here?<<<
I’m not sure that is something police routinely carry.
Many people don’t understand how quickly a man with a knife can close ground a kill a person with a gun, if the person with the gun does not fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL1zX-SrBH0&list=PLNJlkYIxT5VezaCc9x2r8X_b8b0VZg-NT
Perhaps a bean-bag shotgun should be in every supervisor's patrol car trunk, for situations just like this one. Remember the recent incident with the old man holding a knife in the nursing home? The old man was gunned down. One bean bag round would have ended that incident relatively peacefully.
I often wonder how police in Britain handle such situations.
Many people don’t understand how quickly a man with a knife can close ground a kill a person with a gun
Yes. The Tueller Rule. That cannot be overlooked.