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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
Please scroll up and find my initial response to that video. You are doing yourself a disservice by asking the simple question, "To show up and shoot once he refuses to obey commands?" because that's clearly not the reason he got shot.
Columbine was instrumental in changing law enforcement and police tactics. During the incident at Columbine, police waited for other units while the two assailants were inside.
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One has nothing to do with the other. Columbine had assault rifles and shots heard. This guy hadn't hurt anyone yet and had a knife. To try and compare the 2 is ludicrous. It's actually quite insulting to anyone who was involved with Columbine too.
edit: I read your reply and I don't entirely disagree. The problem is the responding officers put themselves into harms way right off the hop by jumping out of the cars so close to the perp. Were they correct in their shooting? Maybe. I'm not a cop and that's the thing, neither are you. We may be eating our cheetohs and typing up these responses in our boxers in the comfort of our homes. But the escalation of force and disregard for human life displayed by the police responding and people defending them 100% is a little troubling. The cops should have attempted non lethal force to subdue this guy. Could it have resulted in harm to the police officers? Maybe. That's the job though. You don't sign up to be a cop and expect it to be easy and never be in harms way. It's a difficult job and especially so in the US... but that doesn't mean that the life of a suspect is less valuable than making sure a cop doesn't face potential injury.