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Originally Posted by Pond, James Pond
...I don't see why 4 officers, and a police dog, could only disarm a guy with a length of metal in an open area by shooting him...
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Originally Posted by Pond, James Pond
...None of this explains why they had to get that close to him....
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Kind of contradicting yourself. They couldn't really disarm the guy without getting close to him.
In any case, pretty standard modern police procedure is --
- to deploy less lethal force against a potentially lethal threat only when there is immediate lethal force back-up present;
- if less lethal force doesn't stop the aggressor who is wielding a potentially deadly weapon and has by his actions manifest the apparent intention to hurt someone with it, lethal force is appropriate to immediately end the threat; and
- to avoid closing and grappling with someone wielding a potentially deadly weapon and has by his actions manifest the apparent intention to hurt someone with it because, among other things, you don't know what other weapons he may have.