Anymore when I hear police claim that someone “lunged” at them causing them to empty their guns at the person my immediate suspicion is that they’re lying.
Because all too often they are.
In any case the use of the word ‘lunge’ or ‘lunged’ by police is to me like an alarm bell.
Let’s see the bodycam video of the woman lunging at these cops.
Or is there any?
Maybe there isn’t any video, and that means exactly nothing. People do indeed lunge at cops with knives.
Tell us about all your cop experience sweetie.
Yes, there certainly are some “standard boilerplate” phrases that police seem to use in their reports when they want to exonerate themselves if they did do something wrong...
“Suspect acted erratically”, “failed to respond to commands”,
“Suspect reached for their waistband”, “At this point the officer feared for their life...”
Of course, these things do happen, but we have also seen plenty of cases where reports written up with these kind of phrases don’t match what actually happened when the video comes out.