About the cops leaving part, I would have been working on my exit pretty early on. But sometimes, it’s tough to leave. You want to put the citizens fears at ease and make them feel like you care-even if you don’t, plus, if they blow her off and she calls and complains, that’s a headache to deal with.
They could have said “ma’am you have water boiling, would you like to turn it off?” And left her to do it. And if she didn’t care about it, neither should they. I will never believe she had any intention of throwing the water at them before they put the thought in her head and it likely never entered her mind unlike those bullets.
I still can’t tell whether she attempted to throw the water or it flew on the counter after being shot, and I don’t much care. Holding a pot of hot water is not justification to draw a firearm and threaten to shoot her in the fhckjng face and even if she had she planned to rebuke the skin right off of his arm, you back up out of her range. If she advances, less lethal with lethal backup and if the less lethal fails and you can’t flee, then deadly force may be an option. Not one I would take though. Grayson could have pullled a taser or pepper spray when he first got the feeling that she was a threat and either would have been more than effective if he felt the need. Instead, he fired three shots to her face and neck area. It’s fucking manslaughter at the least. Maybe second degree murder