Yup. Multiple times.
The guy had a knife.
So they say. I heard them first tell him to get his hands out of his pockets and as he approached them it was then they were saying 'drop the knife'.
Police emptying guns into perps and killing family pets upon dynamic entries are now endemic in society. That's my problem. This killing is just one more in an almost daily slew of reports of cops acting like Enforcers for the mob and not 'peace officers'.
When I was a kid back in the late 60's, I saw a single cop take out a hippie swinging a bowie knife at him, all the cop had was a baton. Hippie was disarmed, cuffed and kicking with his feet into the air like a pig on his back. So do not give me this crappola that two cops have to empty their guns into a single perp with a knife. They couldn't shoot him in the thigh or arm and then rush him? Nope. Cops are now trained to kill first, deal with the consequences afterward.
Thats not a free society. That is indicative of a police state.
If you can’t accept the imperative of the cops shooting Powell at all, while claiming training in self-defense, then you’re suffering severe cognitive dissonance and cannot be reasoned with.
If you accept the fact that cops are justified in emptying their magazines into anyone or anything they claim they feel "threatened by" as 'self-defense', then you are comfortable living with a police state and NO - you cannot reason with me about such a justification. Period.
I have my own personal reasons for loathing and distrusting today's law enforcement. Holder's corruption goes all the way down to the local level if you need a clue.
Cops are now just Enforcers for a beast. Nothing more in my estimation.
“They couldn’t shoot him in the thigh or arm and then rush him?”
Awright, you’ve just proven yourself incompetent on the subject.
We’re done.
And speaking of "emptying their magazines":
Schizophrenic man armed only with pellet gun 'had no face after being shot 80 times' by Texas cops
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200287/posts
I posted it originally because I was gob-smacked by the size of the barrage. Later, I discovered something(s) disturbing: a "gate guard" at the truck stop where this happened actually determined by talking to the guy that he was carrying a pellet gun. The "civilian" guard then informed some of the swarms of officers who arrived to harass the "dangerous" peasant about the pellet gun.
A couple of the officers fist-bumped afterwards, and one took a picture of the bullet-riddled corpse with his cell phone. Party on, Garth! Schwing!
See post #61 for the followup information, and a video interview with the CFO of the truck stop, who was none too pleased at the spraying of lead, unannounced, and the perceived lack of professionalism amongst the shooters.