Brown and the word "robbery".....

[Brakeman]

So would either of you care to describe a rule to teach to policemen about being attacked while they are armed? Currently the cop is taught that he is not to let an assailant gain control of his weapon, so that any serious attacks on himself are to be met with deadly force.

How would you change the rules for cops? What rule should they be taught for violent attacks on themselves?

See "necessary force" and "escalation of force". The rules are decent in and of themselves, it's just that people tend to either ignore them or twist them to make any reaction they want seem like the right reaction. Which is why we're supposed to have oversight committees and investigations.

Were there supposed to be links? How would you change the "necessary force" and "escalation of force" rules that currently apply to an armed policeman? I would think that an oversight committee would judge cops performance to their training. If you think the current training is "decent," Then the cop that shot the teenager was not far off the mark from his training provided the story that he was attacked and lunged at holds.