[toomuchcoffee]

Better?? How do you figure that? So, you only want cops to gun down guys that are 6'4", 250 lbs? I'm only 5'4" but I can kill with a rake if I choose to. Very sharp, pointy things and if I can get inside someone's defense zone, I can do some nice damage. And yes, our brave heros. I wouldn't like to think of my street without some police protection.

[LibWhacker]

I'm only 5'4" but I can kill with a rake if I choose to.

LOL, okay, Terminator. If you say so. But what's a scary guy like you doing condoning a cowardly murder?

The cops I know and respect would've subdued him with their bare hands and at most would've had no more to show for it than a couple of scrapes and bruises.

[SauronOfMordor]

I'm only 5'4" but I can kill with a rake if I choose to. Very sharp, pointy things and if I can get inside someone's defense zone, I can do some nice damage.

There were two officers against one small guy, and a rake is a rather clumsy weapon. If I have a police baton and a partner, I could block your rake swing with the baton while my partner gets inside YOUR defense zone and whacks you a few with HIS baton.

Two against one, this was not an appropriate use of deadly force