Is it necessary for cops to use lethal force against a guy with a knife?

[WLDB]

These are the kind of results we need, ones that the bad guys can understand and learn from easily !!

The dead don't learn.

 

[hunboldt]

You can rest assured that there will not be anybody threatening anybody with a knife for a long time!!

These are the kind of results we need, ones that the bad guys can understand and learn from easily !!

Darn Baboons just will not listen to you, Durry..

 

[WLDB]

Darn Baboons just will not listen to you, Durry..

Those are swords, not knives. Loop hole.

 

[L Gilbert]

Anyone care to attack this gentleman's qualifications?

Not me.

You can rest assured that there will not be anybody threatening anybody with a knife for a long time!!

Bullsh|t.

These are the kind of results we need, ones that the bad guys can understand and learn from easily !!

We? Speak for yourself.

Nothing sarcastic nor outlandish, just the cold hard reality!!

Again, bullsh|t. It's YOUR reality.

It's just too bad you (and a few others here) have been pampered all your lives and you can't face reality!!

Again, that's YOUR reality. Not everyone's a one-eyebrowed, no-neck, knuckle-dragging troglodyte.

Oh well, I guess we realists just have to keep carrying more than our fair share of the weight to keep this country safe and strong,*sigh* !!

lol Go right ahead.

I took courses in Crisis Management, Effective Communication, Handcuffing, and baton and edged weapon defence from this guy. He is VERY good, very bright, knows his stuff.

Good for him.

Former police staff Sgt. breaks down streetcar shooting video | CityNews

I think he could have said quite a bit more and probably did but the news team's content was edited.

 

[tay]

The contrast could not be greater.

Montreal police spend a full day dealing with a demonstrably-violent mentally ill man who shot at them from a house with 180 guns; they finally subdue him with rubber bullets.

A Toronto police officer spends less than five minutes yelling at a potentially-violent mentally disturbed teenager armed with a paring knife; then shoots him nine times. While the other officers at the scene nonchalantly stroll past the bus door.


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Cathie from Canada: Compare and contrast

 

[Sal]

The contrast could not be greater.

Montreal police spend a full day dealing with a demonstrably-violent mentally ill man who shot at them from a house with 180 guns; they finally subdue him with rubber bullets.

A Toronto police officer spends less than five minutes yelling at a potentially-violent mentally disturbed teenager armed with a paring knife; then shoots him nine times. While the other officers at the scene nonchalantly stroll past the bus door.


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Cathie from Canada: Compare and contrast

yes I wondered if someone would post this...level heads prevailed, what a contrast: win/win for the guy and the cops instead of lose/lose and having to live with killing another human being

 

[Locutus]

So now he was waving his d i c k around. Sounds kinda bath salty.

Sammy Yatim: What happened, in the words of witnesses | Toronto Star

 

[tay]

So now he was waving his d i c k around. Sounds kinda bath salty.

Sammy Yatim: What happened, in the words of witnesses | Toronto Star

Obviously he had issues and the cops should have recognized that as did the Montreal ones.........

[Why didn’t Yatim stab people when he had the opportunity? What caused him to expose himself? Why did he stay on the streetcar, and even sit down, after all the passengers fled?/QUOTE]