another st louis cop killing
another st louis cop killing
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- imagineallthepeople0
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"Yeah, what about tazers and pepper spray."protocol for encounter with a knife man is to immediately drop everything, your tazer, your pepper, all that, and go for the gun.
there's no alternative to that and it's a reasonable protocol. knife a deadly weapon, if the knife man closes in under a certain distance the cop has no alternative but to shoot to stop. which is lethal in most cases.nobody can possibly know at this point if the cops did everything right, or fucked up slightly, or perhaps fucked up badly, criminally. so your ideas about proper law enforcement are completely inappropriate.
and monospaced, you seem to be under the impression that shots to the leg cannot be lethal. you are wrong about that, it is not so.
- - $5.00imagineallthepeople
- fair enough, just thought it might make sense to pop him in the knee instead of the chest/head, y'know?monospaced
- I never said they couln't be lethal, just that going for the guaranteed kill seems... I dunno, excessive?monospaced
- how do you know where they shot him, in this case?imagineallthepeople
- how do you know what they aimed for?imagineallthepeople
- I don't. But he's dead, which sucks because I feel there might have been an alternative.monospaced
- he was there. HE WAS THERE.2002
- I agree with monoset
- drake, you too?2002
- I too think they should have tried to immobilise him rather than shoot to kill. Yes.set
- heheyurimon
- They don't shoot the leg because too much opportunity to miss. Police 101. Shoot at the largest mass.mg33
- sorry no. the response to a deadly weapon should be an effective weapon, not another deadly weapon.cannonball1978
- Yeah, multiple shots. That murder. Immobilize coulda shot him in the nuts.fyoucher1