Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: FallenHero
Man, lots of monday morning quartbacking in this thread with a bunch of people that know nothing about tasers or police work.
so what they did was right?
In hindsight? Maybe so, maybe not.
On scene? I probably would have done the same thing. There is no way to predict 100% how a person is going to fall.
Had they charged him and a cop and the crazed man went over the edge in a wrestling match, would that have been better? What if the man stabbed the officer in the neck with a broken end of the light? (In which case lethal force is justified) What if the man jumped anyway?
There are tons of different scenarios which could play out, and I don't see how it actually did shows any level of incompetence or eagerness by police to want the man to die.
How many of these types of situations have you dealt with? What is your personal experience in dealing with suicidal people?