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I think you've misread my post captain, I said it is unreasonable to ask a cop to go up against a perp who has a knife with just his hands. So let me just get that out of the way first.

Your tazer comments are fair, and in a situation where it's just 1 cop that's reasonable. But there's 2 cops. That allows 1 cop to taze or pepper spray while a 2nd cop has his firearm trained on the perp to make sure if it doesn't work they're still safe. That could have been done here but it wasn't. It should have.

Acting threatening around a cop shouldn't end in someone being dead is my greater point. We should have a well trained and well paid police force out there to prevent deaths from happening when possible. All I'm saying is that in this case this wasn't done. There were other options that were perfectly safe for these officers to explore, but due to a series of missteps they wound up having to shoot this guy.

1- Give yourself more distance from the perp as not to escalate the situation further
2- If commands are ignored and you have backup as this officer did, one should attempt non lethal force while the other provides the safety of lethal force if necessary

What about those 2 comments are so outrageous? I imagine that in most developed countries in the word following this type of protocol is why shooting deaths are so rare and they're so depressingly high in the United States.

Your point of the centre of mass is well made, and I will concede that for sure,