Yeh sure does It was a knife!
Originally posted by NumberCruncher "...What if our Knife weilding bandit was a Girl with blonde hair and angelic eyes ? Still ok to squeeze 5 rounds into her chest ?..."
Yeah that would certainly make a difference! I'm sure the cops would have been confronted with countless situations where an offender advances on them with a knife with 'ANGELIC EYES'
Yeah, that'd change my mind. I'd just let her knife me because she looks like an angel.
Cops that shake should be issued with Shot guns not Glocks, thats dangerous.
What if our Knife weilding bandit was a Girl with blonde hair and angelic eyes ? Still ok to squeeze 5 rounds into her chest ?
1st of all cops arnt allowed to shoot anywhere else besides the Centre of Mass (Chest) since if they miss the leg/shoulder (which its very hard to hit if you have shot a pistol before) the bullet could deflect and hit something/someone else.
Not real bright Col ....
Id shoot her in the leg once .... but it sounds like im a better shot than your average shakey Victorian police officer.
!!
Maybe we could all arm ourselves with .45 Magnums for protection.
Imagine that! Make my day! No more punks to annoy US!
Works a treat for Unca Sam?
PS: One could consider this a form of "Protectionism"?
Sorry mate but I think both those comments are unreasonable and unfair.
I'd rather take a hit from a glock then from a shotgun.
NO ONE can control adrenalin. It is a naturally occuring hormone (?)
It doesn't matter who is coming at you it's the weapon that you are thinking about.
Why are they aloud to fire warning shots then ?
A bullet could go right through a 15 year old kid anyways.
I heard its alot more expensive to compensate someone whos permanently disabled rather than just plain old dead .... Does that play a role in policy ?
Rotten thread all. As an ex patrol officer and supervisor on the streets of the burbs for many years I can say there a few right or wrong answers in these cases. Three years ago this kid was 12 years old, some of those cops were probably not in the job. Big decision
The overriding police regulation and legal position is that shooting to kill is justified by you, the cop, if your life or some person you are responsible to protect is in imminnent life threatening danger. The danger must be immediate and there is no other alternative. Backing off and containing the situation is one well covered in training (or was in my day) Time for offender to cool down and for reinforcements and senior members to arrive.
We do not know all the circumstances of this case, they will come out in due course when there is inquest/action/enquiry.
We can only feel for the family of the child killed and the young police who will be going through hell right now and for the rest of thier lives.
2nd For all those that whinged about the stun guns tell me all cops shouldnt be issued with them now?
Warning shots are fired in the air mate not on the ground or anywhere else.
As for your last statement i doubt cops would enjoy shooting someone dead (especially a 15yr old).
I haven't read the story but I can understand the police having to resort to what they did in this situation - If the kid was on ice then it would have been even more unpredictable. Two knives, capsicum spray, warning shots - at some point its easy to see that they would have become scared for their own safety.
And I agree this is a good reason to introduce tazers for general police use, which I have no problem with, as long as the conditions surrounding their usage are that they are a weapon of last resort only, and any tazer usage is treated as seriously as a firearms discharge/wounding - i.e. reviewed in the same way etc. - same paperwork - same risks of assault charges for the police etc.
Not trying to pick on you here mate
Have you ever been attacked by a human with a knife?
Have you ever been attacked by an animal when you have held a gun?
To all the bleeding hearts/sympathisers:
-Have you seen how big some of these 15 year olds are these days?
-As Techa stated there probably would have been several commands for the "YOUTH' (not kid) to drop the knife! (No two knives)
-Capsicum spray used to no effect
- warning shots fired
What more do you want the Police to do. They have a responsibility to contain the situation and no Police force have trained marksmen driving around in the divvy van ready to shoot a knife out of someones hand or pop their kneecap. They are trained to shoot for the main body mass not trained to kill.
As has been said, you have to feel sorry for the offenders family, but then it appears that they have failed to. But I am happy that there is one less of this type of person that could have taken out some innocent person who wouldn't have had the capacity to defend themselves from a person with 2 knives
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?