I’d say that was a good shoot, a justified shooting. The cop was more than patient in trying to get him to drop the knife, even backing up.
The officer actually started to holster his weapon and say “I am going to try and take him”, and then Jeremy Holmes charged him.
The officer didn’t want to shoot, but Holmes must have wanted to die.
BTW, “filthy whore mother” is inaccurate and uncalled for. “Grief-crazed, bitter, vindictive” is more like it. What sexually charged words would you have called a father, or would you have at all?
I thought the female officer might have been out of position to adequately back up her partner. To both of their credit, they engaged the moment he moved forward, but from her angle, her shots were getting closer to her partner than I would have been comfortable with.
Given that it was an extremely dynamic situation, I’m not sure how else it could have gone down, but talking through the video as part of an after-action analysis might lead to some good training tips.
The female cop fired twice herself, as well. This was suicide by cop without question. A deranged man raised by a deranged “progressive.” The male cop was far more patient than I would have been in that situation. I would have asked him to drop the knife once and if he didn’t, I would have dropped in his tracks.
I’ve seen this. It was actually the female officer that put him down with a headshot as he ran past her. Both officers put all expended rounds on the perp.