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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
Yes, but my thoughts are that the police created the dangerous situation by pulling out their guns. They didn't even attempt to talk to him. They had their guns out instantaneously. So I do think they had the right to shoot him after he came so close with a knife, but the situation didn't have to escalate so fast.
I bet if this happened in Canada, the cops would have handled this much better.
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I disagree, the guy created the dangerous situation by presenting enough threats to the officers resulting in them drawing their sidearms. They didn't pull guns on him then he drew a knife out of self defence. This guy had one objective and that was to get shot.
That lasted what 11 or 12 seconds from arrival to shooting? I'm assuming it went something like the officers yelled "knife" to alert the other that there was a weapon in play, then yelled "police! stop!" in order to properly identify themselves then likely something along the lines of drop the weapon. Now the identification as police is very important legally as it has been argued in the courts that a person didn't know the police officer was actually a police officer. How do you have a rationale conversation with an agitated person holding a knife? Clue: you don't. Drop the knife and we can talk, if you charge at me with that knife I will shoot you. There is no grey in that situation.
It didn't have to escalate that fast, the guy didn't need to charge the cops with a knife, tragically it cost him his life.