clarionite wrote:jerry_r60 wrote: I have to wonder if it had to end this way...
He was locked in a room alone. They had to shoot him to protect him from shooting himself?
He was 107. I doubt he was going to make a break for it and out run them.
I understand returning fire was legal. But just like I tell my students, what's legal isn't always what's right.
It would have been different if he were advancing on the police. And maybe that's what happened. I wasn't there.
But from what little has been reported, I can't help but feel it could/should have played out much differently if they (SWAT) had been more patient or not been called at all.
Why is SWAT the answer for most problems anymore? Is it the old "If I have a hammer, every problem is a nail" situation?
I'm usually very pro LEO. Especially with the department involved in this. They were a client of mine back when I was in the Emergency Services software biz. I've spent a lot of time there. I have lots of friends in the area. I just feel someone got in a rush to go home.
NO, it DIDN'T have to end this way.
At all.
The dude was 107 years old.
They could have waited until he fell asleep to deal with him.
THAT, however, wouldn't have been "convenient" for our "brave" LEO's, so instead, they gassed him, flashbanged him in his own bedroom, and gunned him down like he was a homicidal maniac.
Well done.
/clapclapclap
I'm sure the "SWAT" team is very proud of what they did.
I'm not.
I'm disgusted.