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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
was the cop on the balcony? was she a few feet away from him advancing with a the knife and he had no way to retreat and stay safe until back up arrived?
You and I aren't allowed to shoot someone because they have a knife and are threatening us, we have to prove we had no alternative and would absolutley have been injured or killed if we did anything else and could not escape, if we don't retreat when we can but choose to shoot we go to jail.
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Why do you keep bringing this up? Comparing you or I to police. Seriously man. Go do some reading. They are not the same. They have powers specifically written into the criminal code. Now if you want to say the criminal code should be changed, not only is that silly, but no one would sign up to be a cop.
That London video seems to be the standard of how to deal with the knife wielding assailant. It's great if you have 30 cops there. Someone mentioned 1900 sworn members in Calgary acknowledging that not all 1900 are working at one time. You also have to consider how many in uniform, how many are first responders and then how many are working on a given shift. I'd suggest, you may have 10 - 20 in an ENTIRE district at times.
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