Maybe you should ask your friend "from that era" to refresh your memory on the incident. You left out the physical altercation that occurred out front prior to Sanders attempting to retreat into his home. Had there been a senior officer with Faber, or any officer, maybe Sanders would have been...
Coat, pocket, coat pocket, sweater pocket, whatever. Doesn't make a difference. Like I have already stated, if law enforcement officers went around drawing their firearms every time they encounter an individual that has his/her hands in their pockets coat, then they would be drawing their...
Uh, wow. For one, you sure make quite a few assumptions. I can tell you I have yet to meet an officer who draws his firearm simply because someone has their hands in their pockets. That really doesn't make sense. Using this logic, I guess all winter long officers are constantly drawing their...
No. Verbal threats combined with producing a deadly weapon as law enforcement officers are attempting to make a lawful arrest are justifiable reasons to kill someone.
Well then. I would hope that as a former law enforcement officer you would understand that watching a video that captures only a few minutes of a several hour ordeal and then casting judgement on those involved is less than ideal. No one here was involved that I am aware of and no one here knows...
And you are a lot less likely to be killed by anyone if you manage to go through life without threatening to kill people and then pull a knife on them.
The officers on scene were not all making the same decisions at the exact same time based on the exact same point of view. I would bet they were all perceiving the situation differently from their own point of view. The man threatened to kill the police, and then pulled a knife as they...
Do you know what took place leading up to the short video showing the end of the incident? Do you have all of the information that the officers on scene had at the time of the incident?
Tasers and bean bag rounds do not always work, and require you to get pretty close to your intended target...
Well, he still had the knife in his hand and I would bet they didn't want to walk up on him while the knife was still in his hand. Would you rather them put a few more lethal rounds in him?
I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure, but according to the video in the OP all less lethal options available on scene were used.
What makes you think they were Taser shotguns in the video, as opposed to shotguns loaded with less lethal rounds?
Who pulls a knife when multiple police officers are pointing firearms in your direction? Sad to think this entire incident could have easily been avoided if the individual would have made the decision to cooperate with the responding officers. Instead he chose to threaten to kill the officers...
Define "dangerous".
Not all drugs are the same. If you want to sit around and smoke pot without worrying about breaking any laws that's one thing, but I don't see how a rational person can think making heroin, meth, etc legal would improve anything.
So it's bad when these things happen as a result of the drug war...but a non-issue when these same things happen as a result of addiction, overdose, etc related to the same drugs?