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This is a wild story about
Honestly I think in this case the cops responded as they should. They tried teasing him and that didn’t do anything and then he tried to take a rifle from them. At that point they didn’t have a lot of options.
Bullshit, man.
Clock the dude with the handle of a pistol in his head.
Kick him in the balls.
Run away from him.
Blind him.
Not that I agree with some of those options, but my point is, executing a man who clearly needs help ain't it
Terrible ideas. The first two require you being up close, which is unnecessarily dangerous. The third means abandoning the other people at risk. The fourth is just sadistic and impractical.
They may be. But my point is that you don't kill someone just because you don't want to explore other options.
A bit of thought experiment: man is belligerent. Man is trying to reach for a cop's weapon. Man is subdued somehow. Man goes to court, judge said "you tried to get thia cop's weapon? Guilty. Sentence: Death".