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Two things:
That woman is CLEARLY suffering from some kind of mental illness.
If the races had been reversed people would be climbing the fucking walls right now.
IMO a tazer would have been more appropriate.
Also instead of yelling at her to drop the scissors after she was shot he should have just kick it out of her hand.
Totally justified. He gave her every opportunity to stay alive.
If a person can twist their perspective to the point that it's ok for the government to torture and murder civilians when non lethal and non torturous alternatives are available then there is no limit to how twisted that person's perspective can become.Except that she was:
1. Mentally Ill
2. High on Drugs
3. Both
There was definitely a scenario where she was neutralized without having to use lethal rounds on her.
This was murder.Totally justified. He gave her every opportunity to stay alive.
IMO a tazer would have been more appropriate.
Also instead of yelling at her to drop the scissors after she was shot he should have just kick it out of her hand.
Nah, fucking cops are too trigger happy. He didn't de-escalate shit and instead might've triggered her. She wasn't threatening with the scissors at first until he kept telling her to put it down (for what?). And he had to shoot twice at a scrawny ass woman with just a scissors walking towards him?
Nah, fucking cops are too trigger happy. He didn't de-escalate shit and instead might've triggered her. She wasn't threatening with the scissors at first until he kept telling her to put it down (for what?). And he had to shoot twice at a scrawny ass woman with just a scissors walking towards him?
Except that she was:
1. Mentally Ill
2. High on Drugs
3. Both
There was definitely a scenario where she was neutralized without having to use lethal rounds on her.
This was murder.
Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not collect $200
Except that she was:
1. Mentally Ill
2. High on Drugs
3. Both
There was definitely a scenario where she was neutralized without having to use lethal rounds on her.
Self defense.
if he had a taser on him he probably should have tried that if another officer was close by. If not he did what he had to do to ensure he would not get stabbed.
Cop did his job. Unfortunate outcome but he is not at fault.
It was him that escalated the situation. Looks to me like she was just minding her business being probably coked out of her mind talking on the phone with someone. She was already holding the scissors (in a nonthreatening manner) when the cop came in. She didn't go all crazy and threatening until he unjustifiably pulled a gun on her first. Why the fuck did he pull a gun on her? So fucking what that she was holding the scissors (behind the counter where she was not a threat)?
I could go along with the line of thinking that when she charged at him, he had to shoot her (still, if he had a fucking taser, use the damn thing). But his fucking job was to de-escalate the situation, not escalate it to the point where he had to shoot her dead.
wrong.....tasers will put a big mf'er down ....it's disarm not kill that the guy should have gone for...he could easily wrestle those scissors from her without shooting her and if he did shoot her it should have been in the leg...she'd have stoppedTasers don't always put someone down. Its kill or be killed.
wrong.....tasers will put a big mf'er down ....it's disarm not kill that the guy should have gone for...he could easily wrestle those scissors from her without shooting her and if he did shoot her it should have been in the leg...she'd have stopped
That scrawny ass woman with the scissors wasn't going to be able to kill that cop if he had any training to physically engage with people in such a situation.
what does employment have to do with it? Guns don't always work either but I could take that woman's scissors away with a bar towel......No, they don't always work.
I've had people come at me with a knife. Never had to shoot no one dead.
what does employment have to do with it? Guns don't always work either but I could take that woman's scissors away with a bar towel......
Maybe he should've waited to enter until he had backup.
If he would have tazed her it likely would have incapacitated her and allowed him to disarm and cuff her.
You do hear about people on drugs not bring affected by tazers so that is a possibility I guess.
In the end she did charge him, so I see how it's self defense. It just seems there could have been a better way to resolve the situation.