[AngelAssassin]

Originally Posted by iceman247 ↗

He's 5 meters away from her idiot. Tazer or legs and she would be alive this is murder

Procedure for shooting a perpetrator is to shoot your gun to kill, head or center mass, you just DON’T use a gun as a non-lethal choice.

I’m not entirely sure why he didn’t grab his taser instead of his gun, regardless, the actions taken were textbook and very appropriate, given the situation.

[akham]

Originally Posted by iceman247 ↗

He's 5 meters away from her idiot.

Pot, this is kettle. Black. Over.

[akham]

Originally Posted by AngelAssassin ↗

Procedure for shooting a perpetrator is to shoot your gun to kill, head or center mass, you just DON’T use a gun as a non-lethal choice.

No, you shoot to STOP. (You aim at the main body mass, which is what you are most likely to hit. Anyone who says "aim for the legs" is an uninformed idiot. You shouldn't aim for the head because you are less likely to hit it.)

Your objective in shooting is to STOP THE THREAT, not to kill. Of course you may end up killing the person, and if the shoot was a "good" one that' unfortunate, just justified.

I’m not entirely sure why he didn’t grab his taser instead of his gun, regardless, the actions taken were textbook and very appropriate, given the situation.

Non-lethal doesn't always work. If you're the cop and you have one option and you choose non-lethal, you can end up stabbed.

With two cops there should be one on non-lethal and one on lethal. Time permitting (which it did in this case) the non-lethal fires first and if that stops the threat then that's a good outcome. If non-lethal doesn't stop the threat then you have no option but to use lethal.

[akham]

Originally Posted by CombatVet ↗

When they were approaching, the male cop told the female cop she was using non-lethal. He even went so far as to tell her to “taze her” and she couldn’t even unholster her tazer at that point.

It was a “clean” shooting, use of force justified. The male cop did what any other LEO would do which is to try and prevent the need for deadly force. That’s why he told the female officer to use non-lethal force. The only reason why deadly force even needed to be used was because the female officer didn’t do her job. A 9 inch chef’s knife is a deadly weapon, and he had no choice.

Exactly.

There was nothing at all wrong with the male cop's actions. The female cop missed an opportunity to (possibly) resolve the situation with non-lethal, and she needs "retraining".

[bigbear8]

Originally Posted by anorexorcist ↗

the cops didn't know what they were walking into other than that there was a suicidal person.

And you know that how exactly? They knew.

Anyway, why didn’t the cops try to run away? Too much ego, I’m sure, but there have been many videos of cops running down suspects. There was just a video here from Peru(?) where the cops ran away and approached a suspect armed with a knife many times before ultimately shooting him. At least, they tried whereas that likely doesn’t happen in ultra-violent America.

[theresyourtrouble]

Originally Posted by marcos_69 ↗

That useless chick cop got her killed.

Holy shit, you ain’t lying. Perp walking towards her partner and she’s standing there like a bump on a log.

[SLiworkforce]

What an overkill...at least shoot at her leg to incapacitate her first.

[TerminusV]

Originally Posted by docfr8 ↗

Roger that.. Too slow on the non lethal.. they could have jolted her first if that female officer was faster on the draw.. Dude even tells her to go non lethal prior to the incident.. butch I mean bitch had time.. she was a useless back up

I agree, I mean as soon as the one officer drew his pistol that other officer should have immediately grabbed their tazer. The suspect was already covered lethality, don't need two guns on a knife. Then as soon as he gave the command to taze it would have just been a little finger squeeze rather than " oh, you want me to grab my taz"...BANG BANG BANG... "Nope, don't need the tazer anymore...."

[dreamsneverend]

Originally Posted by bigbear8 ↗

These cops are such cowards and killers. I’m not going to say shoot her in the leg, but where are the shields and long range NON-lethal weapons? If that was a man, then I can understand this more, but not for that little lady.

They knew beforehand that she was actually crazy and having an episode literally threatening to kill herself. The cops rushed over there as fast as possible to ensure THEY killed her instead of her doing the honors.

De-escalation is so important, but mental illness is NOT a free pass to be an asshole or come at anyone with a knife. This lady wasn't just shouting at the sky and the cops dropped her, she was armed and sadly a danger to everyone.

Tasing isn't always effective and no you can't shoot people in the leg, this isn't Robocop you twat.

[Robyn728420]

That second female cop named Casey is especially fucking worthless