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Appreciate you taking time to tell that story, good info for this conversation . It's such a difficult call to make in the spur of the moment. The cop having regrets says something about his character and not being a guy that doesn't give a rip.I think I have told the story on here before about my last encounter with a suicidal subject with a knife.
We get a call of a drunk 20 year old armed with a knife trying to break in to mom's house, where he is retrained from being. Lots of cops show up and he is standing on an enclosed balcony with a large chef's knife (think the knife from Halloween), a pair of scissors in his other hand.
When I arrive there are like 3 cops with guns (pistols and AR's), so I grab a 40mm launcher. Fires a foam impact round that is more or less like getting drilled a bit harder than a major league fastball. Kid taunts us from the balcony, does a bunch of stupid shit then goes back inside and calls his sister. Call does not go well.
In the mean time, we set up a 4 man team at the front of the apartment (only way out). Kid comes out, armed with the kitchen knife in his right hand, scissors and BBQ Skewers in his other hand (think wolverine claws). Kid has his shirt pulled up over his head Beavis and Butthead style and is now covered in blood.
We give him commands and as he hits about 10-15 yards from us, I drop him with the 40mm with a shot to the right hip area. He dropped like a sack of shit and lost the knife on the way down. As he sat up we moved forward and my partner hit him with the taser since he was still armed with the skewers and scissors. First taser hit did not incapacitate him, he fell forward and the probe came out, I slung the 40mm and hit him with a shot from my Taser, which got a great spread had the desired effect.
Still took 4 of us to pin his arms down, pry the scissors and skewers from his hand and get the chef's knife out of his reach. Took maybe a minute to wrestle him into cuffs.
So all that said, 2 cops who may or may not have a taser and sure as shit don't appear close enough to a patrol car to grab a bean bag gun or 40mm if one is even available, probably don't have much of an option but to shoot.
In Alaska sometimes someone is killed by a bear that should have bin able to stop the charge but it appeared they waited to long hoping it was only a bluff charge . Sometimes it is sometimes it isn't. Some people always blame the guy with the gun no matter what, no matter how many people get mauled.