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Originally Posted by Acey
I concede, but how do we talk about how this situation could have been handled better when we don't even know what the situation was?
There's not even a discussion to be had if the fundamental belief is that it is virtually impossible for law enforcement to be killed by a knife.
The police have said they had "no choice" so I somewhat doubt she was up on a balcony and not within range of doing any damage.
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Just to be clear I didn't say Law enforcement couldn't be killed by a knife, I said Law enforcement in Canada and the UK where they don't have guns, are almost never
actually killed by knives, about 1 policeman a decade is killed in both the UK and Canada, as threats to policemen go it is all but insignificant compared to car accidents, falling off things etc.
If the rational for shooting someone with a knife is self defence and yet the killing of citizens seems to make absolutely no difference to the number of policemen killed it would seem reasonable that the police should be forced to alter their response as it isn't neccersary