re: #274 jonhendry

“If you’re 20 feet from a suspect and he’s advancing on you, what would you’re training say to do?”

At some point the cops are always going to be 20 feet away. They aren’t born conjoined to the suspect.

Also, you can’t just assume the contents of the training agree with your point of view based on the outline.

As Dark Falcon stated repeatedly, they were responding to a call for a robbery suspect, not a mentally ill person seeking to have a cop kill them.

FFS, I can only imagine the outrage that would have started if the police had cordoned off the entire area and called out SWAT to deploy tear gas, flashbangs, pepper-spray, etc. to disarm the suspect.

MILITARIZED POLICE CAN’T DISARM GUY WITH A KNIFE!1!!

Out of curiosity, how many of you guys would volunteer to go hand-to-hand with a suicidal suspect, armed with a knife or other weapon, for $35,000 a year?