Even if he wasn't confined to the wheelchair, it's still an unarmed man sitting in a wheelchair. Beanbag or taze imo.
SF Police shoot man in wheelchair
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Even if he wasn't confined to the wheelchair, it's still an unarmed man sitting in a wheelchair. Beanbag or taze imo.
Jesus, did you read the article? They did beanbag him (and pepper sprayed him which resulted in one cop getting stabbed), that's when he threw the knife at them. San Fran cops don't have tasers so they went for the next option. I know you live in a Utopian society where most cops don't carry guns and violent crime is unheard of
so this is hard for you to understand, but when you stab a police office and then throw a knife at a bunch of cops you can expect to get shot in most other countries.
Jesus, did you read the article? They did beanbag him (and pepper sprayed him which resulted in one cop getting stabbed), that's when he threw the knife at them. San Fran cops don't have tasers so they went for the next option. I know you live in a Utopian society where most cops don't carry guns and violent crime is unheard of
No, I didn't read the article. It is hard for me to understand, of course, this kind of circumstance isn't normal in my country and the situation probably would have played out much differently.
I just don't understand why when the knife is out of his hands they couldn't have just arrested him. :\
Yeah, because cops have plenty of time to sit and speculate over whether the guy in the wheelchair has more knives. Or maybe a gun.
Time is of the essence.
Agreed. I wonder how hard it is to do your job when the world depends on you... The Police is entirely composed of fucking dumbshits.
Don't think, just shoot. I know people are stupid (obviously) but do you not trust them to make decisions that they are trained to make on the spot? And of course they only even have this choice to shoot or not to shoot because you presented it with them, in my country (which I'm not saying is better or worse) this person would have been simply taken down and arrested with as minimal harm caused.
I guess I'm being unfair. On reflection police in our country aren't great and constantly use unnecessary physical force, perhaps they wouldn't need to if they had guns?
oh.. yeah sorry lol!. My mistake. I was trying to say, shot the guy where it's not fatal. like in the shoulders, hands, Legs(in the wheelchair) or the wheel itself etcetc.