Police in all other countries in the world find ways to take crazy people with knives into custody all the time without killing them. The quickness to pull the trigger and the idea that police should never take one step back to avoid danger, but should immediacy kill anyone who poses any danger at all is uniquely American and uniquely idiotic.
If they have to follow a guy like this around for a while and move back when he comes towards them until he gets tired or someone is able to throw a net on him or something, so be it.
We have developed a sick ideology in America that police officers are like feudal era nobility who must kill anyone who challengers them to preserve their “honor.” Police are there to protect the public, period. They have no honor or need to kill people who “diss” them. That’s exactly what is going on with all of these unnecessary police killings.
There are numerous videos on the net of police in all kinds of other countries, from the best to the worst, taking people like this down with tackles, non-lethal munitions etc. You notice right away that only American police bring so much tension and anger to these situations. It’s obvious they are searching for any excuse to kill.
Don’t underestimate the danger of this issue blowing up in conservatives faces if we keep taking a statist, anti-civil liberties line on this.
Agreed. Too many cops are too quick to shoot to kill. Had a case at a Costco near us when a woman serving samples lost it and started waving around a small paring knife. Used to be, a cop would grab her arm: “Drop it lady before someone gets hurt.” Yeah, yeah I know - she could have massacred the entire store... They should have tazed her, talked her down, wounded her in the leg as a last resort. But no, they shot her dead. Ok “cops are always right” FReepers - flame away.