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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Not counting this morning's incident:
9 shootings
4 fatalities
1 had a gun (and was shooting indiscriminately about)
1 had what turned out to be a fake/antique handgun
1 had a machete (attacking an officer with it)
1 had a butcher knife (had attacked another man with it)
5 had vehicles, and tried to run over or dragged police officers
2 of the fatalities were in vehicles, 2 were not
3 of the shootings were non-injury.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...2016-1.3800554 |
So basically it is an increase in people violently interacting with police and forcing them to use deadly force to protect themselves and the public. ASIRT will find each of these cases justified the use of deadly force