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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Yes, it is. When there's a group of cops against one schizophrenic individual, you have to be able to subdue that person with out taking his life.
Is there no part of police training that prepares an officer to deal with a mentally infirm man with vaguely threatening tool? Maybe there should be.
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Vaguely threatening tools? 5 seconds and any grown man could kill an individual with a screwdriver. Well assuming it's a phillips. Definitely wouldn't bring a wallet to a screwdriver fight.
I don't know what world people live in where they think a screwdriver isn't dangerous. We're squishy, really squishy. The difference between a screwdriver and a knife in a grown man's hand is pretty much you can slash with a knife, if it's still a deadly weapon to anyone who wants it to be.
Unfortunately the officers were called to a location where a grown man was mentally disturbed and threatening harm to others. When they get there, the door is opened and he's there with a weapon. When he doesn't drop it, after being told to do so, and advances towards the very close by police, they don't have other options. They can't call in a psychiatrist while the man rips through their intestines.
Ideally, if possible, they should have had more distance from the door but there's also the factor that there was an innocent bystander in the home, who they also had an obligation to protect.
Given what transpired, I can't blame the officers.