This.
There's a few things I've learned in this thread. For one, some people think that a knife is somehow not dangerous. Just, wow. Secondly, people don't understand that most know the police in the US need more training and whatnot. We all agree with that and I see no one against that. I a black man from the South can tell you that. With that said, people are so quick to blame police in every single situation without any details. We don't know a thing about what weapons they had besides the gun, if they received extra training to disarm and etc. All we know is what was said, the gun and the weapon were in play and exactly what happened.
Judging the links in the thread and say that's correct ill say that I can't blame them personally for what they did. Sure, I still blame the police in general for the lack of training but if that's what they were told to do with their training then that's just what happened.
Sad situation overall. I wonder what the student was going through. Very sad.
Seems reasonable. US Police training seems to emphasise Officer safety first. If you are in danger, you shoot to kill, no matter what. This cop was following his training, I'm sure he trained for this exact scenario and this is how he was trained to react.
The issue is not even the training itself, it's the underlying emphasis on stacking the odds in favour of officer safety, even if that means killing someone who could be disarmed with very little, but still some, risk.
If you look at situations where mental health or suicide are in play, you have to look at the subject as someone who is both the aggressor and the victim. You have to take down the aggressor but you also have to save the victim and you can't do that if you just shot him in the chest.
Verbal deescalation, containment, improvisation, non-lethal weaponry and shields.
