Easily avoided by not coming near her for a while. She wasn't a threat to the public. She was wheelchair bound. Maybe call her psychiatrist or something. Call a relative or someone she knows to talk to her for a while. The deceased was schizophrenic. She was mentally ill and actually believed that she would get help by calling 911.
Another case of "Call 911 and die."
Cordially,
A crazy person swinging knives around *is* a threat to the public, wheelchair or not. It was the cop's duty to stop her.
They used the tazer to get her to drop the knives. She wouldn't drop them, so they kept tazing. The tazing was too much and she died.
She should've dropped the knives. But she didn't because she was crazy. Should they have tried something else? Maybe, we've already had more time to think about all this than anybody at the scene had, and we're taking advantage of hindsight.
There was nothing about this situation that was going to end well from the very beginning. A schizoid with knives flailing around in public, presumably off medications and unable to reason or be reasoned with by police, is more often than not going to end with a dead schizoid. Wheelchair or not. If this were a 300lb 56 year old man in the chair I think the reactions here would be quite different.