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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Well, AFC is right in that few police officers are killed by knives in NA. However, this may be due to the fact that those individuals are bringing a knife to a gun fight and the odds are against them. I don’t know how AFC can look at the above video where the guy is trying to stab the cop with a knife and say that he’s certain he didn’t want to kill him. And there was an Ottawa cop killed 8 years ago or so by a knife.
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my point was/is that very few cops are killed by knives in the UK or Europe either, its just not a very good weapon to kill cops with (thankfully), I am not saying the risk is zero but it is so low, and could be made much lower still at which point is there really a justification for shooting someone?
As to the video, there is the film from the other cops camera which shows the guy with the knife screaming 'kill me kill me' while running at the officer that went down, he had the knife to his throat and yet didnt stab him, he then decided to grab the cops gun, at which point they shot him.
It looked pretty clear the guy wanted to get shoot more than anything else