Yes, he was walking away, high on PCP and with a knife. Let’s say the cop doesn’t shoot him and he gets away and stabs a bystander to death. Cops would have been criticized.
On the flip side, the cop continued to pump bullets into him after he hit the deck. Bad career move.
The way it should have played out is, one of the cops should have used a taser on him, with the second cop ready to fire his gun in the event the taser didn’t do the job and the perp charged them.
Does a taser work on PCP guys?
I’ll tell you this. I don’t want to get in taser range of a guy on PCP with a knife to find out.
I don’t want to do that at all.
He was high on pcp. That would have been reckless.
You never use a taser in a deadly force situation. You only use a taser to subdue a perp in a non-deadly force situation.