Man, I'm sure glad you aren't a cop. Ok, let's talk escalation of force. I only now it from the Military side, not the LEO side, but we don't even jump straight to shoot unless it's obvious that the opponent is going to use lethal force. Shout show shove shoot. Those were our principles.. That's as a combat unit. As police I would have expected them to go through a more serious series of escalations, including but not limited to:
Tazers Mace Baton Body Holds and joint manipulation Strikes and failing all else lethal force The face shouldn't kill you by being bitten. Neck maybe, but even that would take quite a bit. All that being said, it doesn't matter. This cop in my view overreacted, and it cost a man who might very well have been mentally ill his life. Outside of dust, which isn't all too popular these days; and meth which could have been a concern, I don't know of any drugs that would make someone act in this manner. At best this was an assault that ended in the death of the perpetrator. If the victim had been the one to do the shooting I wouldn't think twice about it, I have higher standards for LEOs. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:26 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Take down, how? Grapple with him? You would tackle a man who is strung > out on who knows what that probably makes him "invincible" and also > makes him think it is a good idea to eat faces? He obviously has no > problems with biting ... and biting, and biting. Who is really going to > stick their body parts into that mess? > > If I were the victim, I would tell the cop to fill him up. > > Chewing on someone's face is a seriously life threatening situation. I > would treat the attacker as if he were armed with a knife. If you wield > a fatal weapon, be prepared to be subjected to deadly force. > > I only feel sorry for the guy as far as what must have gone wrong in his > life that got him to that point. I am also sorry for any family he had. > I am not sorry he was shot to stop him from doing what he was doing. > > On 5/28/2012 11:38 PM, Maureen wrote: > > > > I'm with Tim on this one. If you're so puny you can't take down a > > naked, unarmed man without using a firearm, you've got no business > > being a cop. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351590 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
