If they felt that they were in jeopardy of serious bodily harm or death, then they need a new job. Police don’t have to shoot every single person who doesn’t comply with their commands and that’s not how they’re trained.
They have 200 police officers. They absolutely could have gotten backup. As usual, you just make shit up when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Nobody is siding with how this guy acted. I’m saying that police should have called for backup. Your retarded claim that they should have shot him to save time is just ridiculous and is certainly not how they are trained.
200 officers. Let's say it's the day off for 50 of them since they work holidays and weekends, that's 150 officers. Divided in three shifts, that's 50 officers per shift, likely less since they usually schedule a larger staff for second and third shift when much of the violent crime takes place.
The most entertaining part about these topics are you armchair quarterbacks. You know what police should have done, not them, They didn't know what to do after attending the police academy, several years of police experience, trained in their departmental policy, ongoing or advanced training. You know better even though it seems you likely don't personally know any police officers yet alone how they're trained.
Oh.......but you don't side with the criminal, you just side against the police each and every of these police topics. That's so much different.
With all the things you think you know, what you don't know is that a police officer (like us armed citizens) can't shoot people for shits and giggles. You have to be able to prove or have evidence you needed to use deadly force, and simple non-compliance is not one of them.
But if it makes you feel any better, the dispatcher did send out several cars already. How many more police officers did you want them to send? I went back and counted. The two officers combined instructed him to put down his weapon 12 times before using the taser. Of course he refused, and when he started walking towards the officer in spite of being tased, that's when he was shot. As far as I can see, perfectly legal.
