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pbwalker wrote:whoa...this was my home town before I moved to TX.

DPD are a good group of officers! Good job Officer Keane.

Re: TAM's comment about pot, how about we prohibit alcohol first?

We've been there, done that. It was called Prohibition. It worked as well as the war on drugs.

It led to high prices for a simple substance that was sought after by large portions of the population, and gave rise to a violent underworld of folks to supply it while enriching themselves and corrupting legions of government officials to look the other way to protect the profits. Everybody who wanted alcohol had no trouble getting it - they just had to pay artificially high premiums above the cost of production to pay for the risk the sellers took to deliver it.

Sound familiar?

This video is an outstanding example of just how quickly things can get really bad for no reason that makes any sense to anyone.

The officer in this case had a number of options and extended decision time because he was inside an operational vehicle when the attack started, and he used all his non force options before employing deadly force. When one is up close and without the protection of a vehicle or other partial cover, the time frames and options are even more compressed than those in the video.

The officer in this case managed a very difficult situation as well as the circumstances permitted. When he determined that deadly force was required, he fired only one shot, and immediately called for an ambulance. He also remained in control of his voice and made coherent and appropriate radio transmissions despite the extreme stress he was under. That is one well trained and highly competent police officer. His department should be proud of him.