They literally established that cops don't have a positive duty to intervene in physical fights if they judge that it's too dangerous to themselves or anyone else It's straight up not actually his job
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And if asked to defend himself he could just say "Even if you think the girl's life meant nothing and was forfeit the moment she pulled a knife, I couldn't be confident of shooting her and not hitting the other girl too" WHICH IS TRUE
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It IS very dangerous to shoot someone who's in a physical fight with someone else It IS just luck that he didn't hit the other girl, especially with all four bullets It WAS a bad idea EVEN IF you think the first girl merited death JFC
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The cop is supposed to be trained to physically disarm and restrain people without firing his gun He's supposed to have a stab-resistant vest If there's really nothing at all he can do to stop an untrained 16-year-old girl with a steak knife from killing someone, he should quit
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But even if none of the above were true, if the only choice was doing what he did or doing nothing, how can you actually say "doing nothing" is the wrong choice here If the cops had just never come at all, almost certainly everyone walks away from this situation alive
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It is also extremely difficult to kill someone with a knife. Like, this was a teenager, not a military assassin.
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Knives are weird. Sometimes you hear about people getting stabbed once and dying, sometimes you hear about it taking 30 or 40 seperate injuries before they stop fighting. It's very hard to predict and best to just avoid getting stabbed TBH.
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I disagree. There is a wide gulf between over the top unnecessary lethal force and doing nothing at all. Both are a complete failure of the cop to do his job.
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If he'd done nothing at all, then sure, I'd say he was doing a bad job as a cop that day But -- this is the crucial thing -- everyone would still be alive
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