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Old 06-04-2020, 09:08 PM   #1842
Acey
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon View Post
First the vast, vast, vast, majority of people with a knife the police come across are depressed, suicidal, suffering from delusional behaviour often drunk or high and not looking to kill a random policeman, these are the poor schmoes the cops shoot by the thousands and that includes the rare cases where the cops deal with people who have actually killed someone, the wife or kids, with a knife, they still are unlikely to actually try and kill a policeman, on top of that the 'range' of a knife is about 3 feet beyond that a policeman is safe and can back off.

The problem you are having is thinking everyone with a knife confronting a cop is Norman Bates where as in fact most are just sad broken people going through a massive crisis in life and do not need to be killed as a response to that.
So you're saying there's a chance she wasn't the saint you're convinced she is?
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