Unfortunately it won't be the end of the story and you missed my point. Sure the officer gets to go home. But then he has to deal with the aftermath personally and at work. It would have been much easier to wait on back-up and take down the guy in a non-lethal manner.

Speaking of armchair quarterbacks...

Shoulda expected you to drop a BOOM!

Our police officers have a heck of job they have to do. The crap they have to see and deal with is something many of us will never know. The way people can treat them and act toward them is unreasonable and have to worry about weaponry and cooked up on drugs. It can be intense from the minute they hit their lights for just a "minor" traffic situation.. It's nice how people in nice offices or on their computers can look at a situation and say, "He could have, should have, etc." You're the police officer in your house, how would you handle a guy like this coming into your home? The police officer's home is the community he serves, he has their backs.

I figured you out the first week I was back on this forum.

That’s possible in some situations but not all. We are not trained to wait for a subject to possibly harm or incapacitate is or any person actually. We are trained to diminish the threat. When a person is in that condition, you DO NOT repeat Do Not want to go hand to hand with that person. 9 out of 10 times that person will overpower you. Adrenaline on top of mind altering substance is a recipe for bad things to happen. I will agree with that the officer did something wrong. The officer should have never let that guy get in his personal space. Especially with a blunt weapon. As soon as the guy picked up the weapon and threatened the officer, the officers actions should have escalated. The officer put himself and others in a really bad situation by waiting. We are also trained to fire and keep firing until there is no longer a threat or you are completely out of ammo. We are trained if the first 2 to center mass doesn’t stop it you go to the head. This changed a few years ago due to all the mind altering drugs on the street. Used to be center mass only. Like you said it’s real easy to arm chair quarterback a video,but until you went through all the high levels of training we have now or been in the officers shoes you really have no idea how any situation will be handled.

So just house he supposed to wait on back up if the guy is advancing on him? The officer did what he had to do.

The officer did what was necessary at that moment. it doesn't matter if the deceased was great guy his whole life up until then and he was just having a 5 minute glitch. At that time he was a threat. Told to stop multiple times and kept advancing and then striking at the officer.
Dont put yourself in a situation like that and if you do just do what they are telling you. The man would be alive today if HE didnt do the actions that caused the scene to escalate. The deceased is deceased because of HIS actions just like the "thugs" whos mama is crying on TV cause someone shot my baby while he was armed robbing or carjacking them.

Really.

What did you figure out, azzhole?

Woods walker I got a 100 dollars that says you couldn’t have took that stick from that nut. And when he had kicked your a$$ and got your gun what then?

That deputy is too old and too out of shape to be on patrol. He needs a desk job. Not sure how else he was supposed to handle it based on the info he had.

And again, some just like to bitch and moan.

Do you think a dig would have got him down to the ground? I have no experience in any of this just curious. I think if I was in law enforcement I would want to roll with a dog for a lot of reasons.

I’m no expert by any means but. I wouldn’t want to have to fight anyone or anything that couldn’t feel pain. That would be crazy in itself.

Ida shot him sooner..... or later.

The article says dude had rammed two vehicles and was threatening people when the officer arrived. If the officer had retreated then innocent people could have gotten hurt. The guy was crazy, the officer did the right thing imo.

Glad he's not out and about anymore.

It was a completely justifiable shooting.

That should not even be a debate.

The discussion should be revolving around (a) the funny commentary of the black guy shooting the video, (b) the fact that the black guy would have been saying the opposite if the deranged dirt bag was a black man and (c) how the deranged dirt bag took so many hits before showing any affect from the bullets. The first 6+ shots looked like they went straight thru him without actually hitting him like he was some kind of ghost.

I thought that too....did it ever confirm how many actually hit him?