Watch the video. It happens so fast. What else could he have done?
He was already dealing with a guy assaulting a woman, so I was
surprised he was tuned into the girl with the knife as well.
Pretty amazing that he was able to save that girl from a
likely fatal stabbing.
I have several times.
Every time I watch it I think that the girl in pink is very lucky to be alive and should thank that officer every day for the resto of her life.
Had that officer not been fast and accurate with his side arm she could have been stabbed or the officer could have shot bother young women to death.
As I see the video, the body of the woman with the knife was half obscuring the woman in pink. That means when observing from the officer’s perspective, in two dimensions, the two women presented one target.
Of course the officer could easily discriminate the two targets but it remains that a small error in the short time the officer had to sight his weapon to his target could have meant the death of the woman in pink.
Even a bullet passing through the woman with the knife could have struck the woman in pink causing injury or death.