(October 27, 2020 at 7:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 27, 2020 at 7:45 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Running at two cops with guns when you only have a knife takes balls. He was afraid of going to jail maybe. Not afraid of the cops. Big difference there.
If you want to say black lives matter, fine, but not when it's suicide and they're putting other people at risk of harm. Then that life doesn't matter. Not one bit. He got his wish. He avoided jail.
If the suspect is running at you when you have 30 cops surrounding him, the cops he is running at can back off and run themselves, and as the suspect is distracted by that target, the cops behind him can taser him or hit him with rubber bullets. He still didn't have to die.
Again, there are plenty of videos online of cops taking down armed suspects, even those with guns, and don't kill them.
It is a matter of training. And having enough non lethal weapons, wide parameter and distance.
A taser might not do the job, and you can't just run away and give him the chance to take someone hostage or stab someone else. He lunged. He kept moving towards them. He didn't want to go to jail, and they granted his wish.
And the reason Dylan Roof and the theatre shooter are alive is because they surrendered. They cared about their lives enough to comply. This idiot didn't. Nothing to do with skin colour.
