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txinvestigator wrote:
Do you suggest that they just let him go?

No, they should have shot the knife out of his hand... I KID!

I'm definitely not advocating that they let him go, I just wouldn't want to see an officer take a knife if there was another way they could have taken him down without as much danger to the officer. What do I suggest? I'm not sure what other options would have been available to them at the time?

The bottom line is I'm armchair quarterbacking as I've never been in LE and I'd just rather see the BG go down hard than the LEO take a blade.

txinvestigator wrote: TASER's are not designed to be an alternative to deadly force for officers. They are designed as a tool so officers do not have to go hands on with a suspect physically resisting.

While this may be true, a TASER could have prevented this officer from having to get within striking distance of the knife wielding crazy.

This is a pretty old one that I've seen many times. I don't think they were using Tasers much, if at all, back then. This one was very scary as the officer put himself in a pretty bad situation. Seeing how the man was all alone and not endangering any other innocents, I don't see why the officer should have endangered himself as he did by closing in on the guy still armed.