[GreenLantern]

Unfortunately suicide by cop is an all to real thing that happens every year, I am not saying absolutely that is what happened here, but you can't rule it out either. You can hear the officers call out for him to drop the knife, I am assuming the man advanced on them carrying the knife, non lethal options failed, so they escalated to lethal.

Police go to calls with guys who have duct tape knives to their hands and run at them as soon as they get there. But if they don't intervene, there is a high risk this individual harms themselves or leaves the residence and harms someone else. What should they do? Send in an un armed social worker to talk to a guy with a knife in his hand? Would you volunteer to be that social worker alone in a 600 square foot apartment with this person?

Often times with mental health, unfortunately, the person is just not reasonable and can't be talked down. So its either police intervene and attempt to save them, or you leave them to their own devices and see what harm they can cause to themselves.

In the case of an apartment, you're also putting others at risk in that apartment depending what they decide to do, IE, start a fire. It's a slippery slope, and I agree Police aren't equipped to deal with these situations, they aren't social workers. But who right now is ready to go into that situation and handle it in a way satisfactory to the public? We need to build the necessary systems before we tear down the existing.