Quote:That's exactly what I am saying.  Look at the hypotheticals in this situation.

 

Say the officer in question is a female that is 5'5 and weighs around 130 and the person assaulting her is a male that is 6'2 and weighs around 240.  Who is going to win that fight?

 

If the officer feels that her life is threatened and in jeopardy, she can escalate to the next level in order to stop the action.  The "next level" in this case might be the use of deadly force.

 

The same goes for a male officer that is say 5'9 and weighs 170 and the person assaulting is again a male that is 6'2" and weighs around 240.  In this case, escalating to to the next level might be using mace or a taser to stop the action.  If that doesn't work, then the officer is justified in escalating again to deadly force.

 

Those that are "commending" the officer in the OP for not using deadly force are wrong.  A police officer should NEVER have to endure an assault like that and should use ANY means necessary up to and including deadly force to stop the action.  Unfortunately, people seem to forget that our police officers serve us and should NEVER be attacked the way that this guy was.

Correct no one should be assaulting police officers or threatening them no one will dispute that. If cops wore body cameras there would rarely if ever be a dispute over the validity of them shooting suspects. As with the recent case of the cop murdering the guy as he tried to drive away. 

 

Don't cops get training in taking down combative suspects? Non lethal methods of restraint? I guess if they don't then are being trained to shoot instead? You see the problem people have right? They assume cops are trained for these situations and just resort to the lethal method because they don't care. However, maybe they are not trained properly?

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