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Originally Posted by Aleks
I don't understand why so many people focus so much on downplaying a syringe/needle. There is no way at all that getting stuck with someone else's needle is not considered a valid threat. One poke can be a life sentence of communicable disease, many with reduced life span, others with life long complications, often time with a indeterminate period of time just waiting to find out. Your relationship/marriage will be strained, you'll be on medications for months, you'll endure psychological depression as a result of your decision. I would challenge any of the armchair officers to come and fight with one of their subjects or one of my patients wielding a syringe, I'm sure your bravery level would rapidly decline. I have colleagues on long term illness for liver failure from hepatitis contraction on the job, they will die, long before their time. Deadly force was absolutely warranted
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I think the point you're missing is do CPS or any officer have exceptions to the norm and the answer is yes. I can almost guarantee that at the hospital I work at that if nurses, doctors' social workers, health care workers etc. starting killing patients cause they felt "threatened" they would be jailed or out of work on the least. Trust me working on the psych unit we are trained to try to de escalate situations and if we can't and the person poses no threat to someone we leave the room....the CPS could have easily left that hotel room that day, the guy posed a harm to only himself heck they entered the room for crying out loud the guy was only a threat to himself before the CPS entered why not try to calm the situation from outside, the taser failed and he was shot bottom line