It is a miracle that he is alive, the best option would have been to give the man the option to surrender his gun and surrender to the police.
He was told to surrender and ignored commands. The game changed a bit when he actually fired the gun. Until then, the cops didn't know if it was loaded.
He is lucky to be alive.
Still don't agree with running him over like that. I think it is overkill in that situation.
What would have been appropriate?
I am not trained in violence escalation tactics and prevention of that escalation.
Maybe police needs to be trained longer in solving these kinds of situations.
Still don't agree with running him over like that. I think it is overkill in that situation.
What would have been appropriate?
He was firing a rifle in the middle of a street where hundreds of people were working and threatening to shoot himself.
He needed to be taken down quickly.
If that officer hadn't done what he did, the others might have killed him.
I agree this guy was going to end up shooting someone. He sure didn't have his deer tags.
But as I rewatch that video I can't believe how tight of a spot that was for the officer to crash through. The area before the crash and the area after were safer but that is just Monday morning quarterbacking. Perhaps the officer had gone up and down that road a hundred times and knew where the cinderblock wall was and how high.