Helpless police?
WSJ reports in an article «Police shoot, kill man near NYC Times Square» that a man was shot after a «slow speed pusuit» that lasted 7 blocks and lunging at a police officer with a knife.
What I personally find strange in this story is that the police could not take the knife away from a person allegedly smoking marijuana. He had the knife drawn from the beginning and was wildly swinging it around. Would it not be a part of the police training to know how to take a knife away from someone? Do they really have to shoot dead the guy? And there were many police officers there, mind you. What is next? Will they shoot people wielding sticks? I can tell you, a stick can be more dangerous than a gun if wielded properly.
Why is the police so helpless suddenly that they have to use firearms in a very basic situation? I do not feel comfortable with the police escalating the violence instead of using the techniques, training and their wits that they should have had about them.
Оригинал: https://tigr.net/2012/08/13/helpless-police/