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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Most people don't need to be shot.
It's an unfortunate situation, but the police were sent to a high-risk situation where a potentially violent (based on the 911 call) man appears to approach them with a weapon. It was a dangerous situation for them. They did what they were trained to do, and before we jump on the anti-American police, most police forces in the world are trained very similar in handling assailants with a deadly weapon.
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This is just blatantly untrue. The US is the only western country were rank police are commonly trained and expected to use firearms with use of force procedures that are essentially (and in some states literally) copied from the military. Many western military personnel serving in hostile countries actually have stricter ROE than the US police have towards their own citizens.
Some US servicemen have noted after watching videos like this is that they've had stricter regulations against use of deadly force while performing similar duties in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan.
Elsewhere in the west it's pretty much assumed that if two cops can't handle a crazy guy with a screwdriver without killing him, they probably shouldn't be cops at all. In many countries a screwup of that magnitude will get you fired automatically, and the only question left is whether or not you go to jail for it too.
There are probably dictatorships in the world where you would be statistically less likely to die in the hands of the police than in the US. The reason we can't say that for sure isn't the lack of statistics from dictatorships, it's the poor statistics from the US. That alone should tell you that there is something seriously wrong there.
It just isn't "just what cops do". It's the US police,
their poor training (in many places much shorter than in any other western country),
their lax rules for use of deadly of deadly force, and very probably their attitude problems too.