[Illusion]

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has released the body camera footage from the October 14th Officer Involved Shooting on Chalfont Drive with Bonny Thomas and Senior Police Officer (SPO) Lamar Glenn. At approximately 10:15 am on October 14th, ACCPD was dispatched to the 100 block of Chalfont Drive for a suspicious person call involving a female who was said to be armed with a gun and a knife. As the video begins, SPO Glenn (53 YOA) arrives at the scene and notices Thomas (54 YOA) appearing to flag him down. As Glenn is preparing to exit his vehicle, he sees that Thomas has a butcher knife in one hand. After Glenn exits his vehicle, Thomas continues towards him with a knife in one hand while her other hand is concealed under her shirt.

Glenn retreats towards the rear of his vehicle while issuing verbal commands for Thomas to drop the knife. Thomas ignores these commands and continues to walk towards Glenn with the knife raised above her head saying, “I have a gun and a knife.” The video shows that Glenn continues to retreat. He refrains from using force against Thomas until she runs towards him with the knife raised above her head in a threatening manner. Glenn fires one shot striking Thomas in the torso. After additional officers arrived, ACCPD administered first aid to Thomas until EMS arrived. Thomas was transported to a local hospital where she later died. The GBI is continuing its investigation into this Officer Involved Shooting.

[Muzziphilia]

She wanted it. As SOON as he arrived too

[Padraig Flaherty]

That's that! Imagine trying to have lynch/supper break after that!

[Padraig Flaherty]

Lunch...

[rhubarb_king]

- Multiple warnings from the cop pointing a gun at her ✓
- Literally brought a knife to a gun fight ✓
- Verbally threatening the cop ✓
- Physically threatening the cop ✓
- Dumb as fuck ✓
- Got what she was asking for ✓
Result: A+ for the cop.

And WTF did she think would happen?
I sincerely hope the cop doesn't feel bad about shooting that nut job, because he shouldn't.

[wynncraft]

Why do these cops have tazers and non-lethal weapons if they are just going to use the gun

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Revy ↗

She wanted it. As SOON as he arrived too

My opinion is completely biased here because I hate to see women suffer especially if they have a mental illness like the women in the video but couldn't the officer use less than lethal force like a shotgun with salt or rubber bullets to disarm her in this situation? Again my opinion is biased; if it was a guy in this situation I probably would care as much.

[raggity ham]

Originally Posted by wynncraft ↗

Why do these cops have tazers and non-lethal weapons if they are just going to use the gun

Because not everyone they encounter has a clearly visible deadly weapon like this lady with a deathwish did

[Muzziphilia]

Originally Posted by Illusion ↗

My opinion is completely biased here because I hate to see women suffer especially if they have a mental illness like the women in the video but couldn't the officer use less than lethal force like a shotgun with salt or rubber bullets to disarm her in the situation? Again my opinion is biased; if it was a guy in this situation I probably would care as much.

Maybe he didn't feel safe popping open the trunk, taking his eyes off the suspect and readying the shotgun while she was still holding a knife, moving towards him. A taser is another thought, however if, just if it doesn't work or misses it's one shot, he then gives the suspect time to close more distance to him, while he fiddles with holstering the taser, then going for his pistol. Not to mention he had no idea if she did or did not have a gun in the small of her back or pocket, where she was clearly yelling she did. He covered his own ass

[docfr8]

Dumbass retarded bitch SBC

You get what you get, so don't throw a fit