Posted on 04/06/2017 8:28:18 AM PDT by rellimpank
The man in the Camden, N.J., police video is practically begging to be shot. After using a knife to menace a cashier and a customer in a fast-food restaurant, he strides down a street slashing at the air as police repeatedly order him to drop his weapon. The man keeps walking, defiantly waving the knife.
Several cops form a ring around him and move along at a safe distance, block after block. This goes on for several tense minutes, as the viewer waits for shots to ring out. But they never do. Eventually, the man drops the knife and is collared.
It's a reasonably happy outcome. Had the 2015 incident occurred a year earlier, before the department adopted new tactics, "we would more than likely have deployed deadly force and moved on," Chief J. Scott Thomson told The New York Times. Instead, the offender survived, and no cop had to deal with the trauma of killing him.
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You could try to tase them but that doesn’t always take an assailant down. I would rather keep cops safe so that they can continue to keep others safe. And cops lives are worth something in themselves.
Steve Chapman ==> See top of post: Author of the original Chicago Tribune article.
Agreed, but in New Jersey if I carry a knife for self defense and am forced to use it, I go to prison just like my attacker. But if, when grabbed from behind I pull the pen from my top pocket and drive it through the attacker's eye into his brain...I was unarmed.
But the way lefty prosecutors are these days, having posted this is proof of premeditation if I ever have to do it...but I'll continue to practice anyway. Better tried by 12 than carried by six.
If the cops had asked him, “pretty please with sugar on top”, to drop the knife it would have ended quicker.
I’m not sure it’s legal to carry a large fixed blade anywhere unless you are out in the woods camping or something like that.
But yeah, Jersey has some very stupid laws in a country of citizens who have the inalienable right to bear arms.
Only if they're painted black. I wouldn't be caught dead in a throwing star fight with one of those nickel plated sissy shurikens. (props to Tommy Lee Jones in U.S. Marshalls). It's important to maintain tacticool in all aspects of your life.
One pulls out a knife, and starts acting weird. Cops show up, and ask/demand that he drop the knife, telling him "...or they'll shoot him with a pepper ball" and take him into custody.
The bum then decides to start superficial carving a bulls eye on his shirtless chest "to make it easier for the cops to aim" - his words.
Not sure if the cops waited for the knife to be out of the way to loose the pepper ball. Just think of the fuss if the ball had hit the back of the hilt, and helped the knife to penetrate deeper.
The audience in the theater I was watching that movie in burst out in applause and cheering when that scene was shown.
So you'd put 'em in a ballistic black velcro pouch too, I'd bet.
Young guys, think they know everything...
Arrant illogic and presumptuousness.
The Indonesian arts is a good way to go,Kali,Escrima,etc. especially useful is the small joint manipulations, and while I have an extensive and expensive knife collection ( just received 3 today, a Southard, a Hoback,and a Shirogorov) my cocobolo fighting sticks are lethal, makes a steel ASP seem like a toy.
Only if the ballistic black velcro pouch was properly labeled with white lettering proclaiming it as a “tactical shuriken pre-deployment storage device”.
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