From the Atlanta paper..looks as if the officer was justified
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Sunday morning, police were called to her home in the Bexley apartment complex.
Police spokesman Dana Pierce said officers responded to an alarm at the complex in the 300 block of Penny Lane S.E. at about 11 a.m. Sunday. While at the apartments, officers were notified of a second alarm inside the same apartment.
The woman who answered the apartment door, Barnette, was armed with a knife and a handgun and attacked a police officer, said Pierce in a press release. The officer fired his weapon to stop the assault, said Pierce.
Barnette died at the scene.
The officer involved in the shooting was treated for his injury at the apartment complex. He has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the shooting.
I may be a tad cynical as I have been on the wrong side of the cops but on the right side of the law a few times.
The entire matter is tragic.
The gal sounds looney, but there must have been a better way to handle this situation.
If she really was nuts and threatening, why wasn’t she dealt with earlier?
I have come to the door armed many times, but never brandishing.
The entire matter is tragic.