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Jen0125 posted...

Only in America would someone say this. He had a non-lethal weapon. They can still subdue him without killing him.

I'm looking at this from a different perspective to some others I suppose. If we assume everything leading up to the altercation is true with him blocking the drive thru with his car while he's drunk asleep inside of it, the police had not choice but to intervene. He not only failed roadside sobriety test, he resisted arrest and successfully fought off two police officers then stealing one of a taser in the process.

As I mentioned in my previous post they couldn't really use pepper spray in that situation due to the distance between them, the only ones that would feel the sprays effect would've been the officers, not him. The other officer fired his taser but missed it's at this point he turns around and tries to shoot one of the officers with the taser that he took from them and is shot down.

If you take into consideration the earliest events that occurred further non lethal take downs are out of the question. If he successfully shot one of the officers with the taser, without lethal force it'd become a one on one struggle (something which the cops lost when it was two on one) leaving the officers with the only choice to use lethal force.

It's unfortunate, but even with hindsight there's little they could've changed to alter the situation.

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