DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs
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Sorry, I quoted the wrong one.
To be fair, we didn't see the whole exchange. And we do know that they tasered, or at least attempted to taser the man, and that it didn't work. Even if he's having a psychotic episode, the officers were running out of options when he reached for a weapon.
I'm deeply sorry that a man has lost his life. And if he was in a psychotic moment, then that compounds the tragedy. Perhaps there could be more training, but I really think the officers responded to the best of their ability.
Well I'm kind of torn here, on the one hand it seems almost ludicrous that 5 or 6 officers can't control one unarmed man but when someone has a psychotic break sometimes they can do things no normal man could.
But now you're getting into mind reading territory. Whatever the guy was thinking is irrelevant, it's what he was actually doing that matters. He was wrestled, tazed, and then was still strongly resisting and went for a gun. That's a clear danger.
He's overpowering 5 officers and is now wrestling one of them for his gun? Yeah, that's scary enough to warrant shooting him. They tried all options to restrain him. It totally sucks and is sad and unfortunate, but that seems to be what happened in the very short few seconds of the encounter.
I keep hearing that at least one of the officers had a body cam that was on, so maybe we'll eventually find out more about what happened, but as it looks right now, the guy didn't give the officers much choice.
And I do agree with you on that front, they really did exhaust all the options they had and maybe if footage is released from a body cam showing he was def trying to get the gun than that would def make it justifiable. From the angle of the fb video it just doesn't seem like he really knew what he was doing. Like I said in my previous post, I have schizophrenia and it just scares me that something could happen to me one day (although I take my meds everyday) where I lose control and the only thing that an officer thinks will solve the situation is killing me. There has to be a batter way of dealing with someone who is not right in the mind. For all we know those cops could have been demons trying to take his soul and that's why he fought so hard. When I had a mental breakdown I heard voices from God, angels, and demons. It's freaking scary and luckily for me mine are auditory hallucinations and no matter how crazy they were I never acted on them. It just seems like there has to be a better way than what went down, although for the life of me I can't think of one