They were not willing to kill him, that was the problem. The minute he started chasing someone with a knife, don’t back up, aim weapon and unload on him. Stupids.
Shows how effective an edge weapon can be. doesn’t seem the knife man was highly trained in knife use just determined.
Most likely he wanted to commit suicide by cop and they did not let him until he killed some of them.
None of the cops looked like they took it seriously, the one with the rifle appeared to be going for a butt stroke.
I feel sorry for the cops, but clearly they’re not well trained nor very smart. They fired how many shots and the perp IS STILL ALIVE?
Further proof that it’s not just the gun, it’s the resolve to USE it.
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Why didn’t they do a back flip and kick the knife out of hand instead of shooting him?
Jackboots
Saw this in my level 1 tactical knife class. We were discussing the Tueller Drill and reaction time. BTW the FBI pushed the distance back from 7m to 10m. The whole discussion of reaction time explains a lot such as why you can watch yourself locking your keys in your car and understand how you couldn’t stop. Distance is your friend and always follow Gibbs’ rule #9.
Practice is vital in such situations. Even in karate schools, wooden or rubber knives and cap guns are common, because you have to learn the actual variables involved in their use. Knives and guns are not magical, and both have very strict rules for their proper and effective use.
Importantly, this matters both for the “defender” *and* the “attacker”, which like in this Nicaraguan case, are just labels. The knife man was the defender until he became the attacker.
Just a single hour of training with a friend teaches volumes, if you are both willing to play it straight. And even the imaginary bullets of a cap gun or the “slashes” and “pokes” of a piece of broomstick register in your brain as ‘hits’.
“If this had been an actual bullet or knife, I would be bleeding right now.”
Nobody was smart enough to take a couple of steps back and shoot the b@$t@rd?