What a tragedy.. (EDITED).. These guys are seasoned experts at breaking up high school parties and chasing kids smoking weed in the park, but any time a real crime seems to happen in this town, "folsoms finest" seems to make them self look more bumbling, incompetent, and in this case, overzealous and trigger happy.. These guys wanted to feel important and pretend theyre on tv, and one persons life is over and an entire familys life is ruined.. Asking for assistance in diffusing a domestic situation and blowing away a 23 year old that locked himself in his room im a big difference.. These officers should be put jail for a long time.. was several shots to the chest necessary for a man with only a knife? If these guys had any training in real crimes, or knew what they were doing, then they would have used one of countless other techniques that doesnt involve ending a mentally disturbed mans life.. Would Sac PD have had this problem?
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Thank you for the insightful information about the dangers of knives.. As someone who has worked in security for several years, and have been personally been attacked with a knife and had nothing more than my fists and pepper spray to protect myself with, i clearly and throughly understand the dangers of knives.. However, Officers are instructed to use as little force as neccessary in situations like these.. Swat should have been dispatched, and a negotiator or someone who knew what they were doing should have been called in to calm the man down.. While shooting the man may have been the more exciting and convientient way to handle the situation for these "officers with 35+ years experience", .. Mortally wounding this man shouldnt have been their method to diffuse the situation.. The information (or lack thereof) despite the fact that there were an entire family of witnesses witnesses is disturbing to me.. You may choose to take folsom pd at their word, but as someone who has been a resident of folsom for 14 years and knows better, I choose not..
Awful lot of douchebaggery here. Actually, officers are trained to respond with the next higher level of force within the escalation of force continuum. You resist, I go hands on or pepper spray or taser. You raise your fists in a fighting stance, I go to the stick and break your hands. You brandish a knife, I go to the gun.
From a holster, the minimum distance between an officer and attacker armed with a knife is 21 feet. Anything less than that and the officer won't be able to draw, fire and stop the threat before being struck with the knife.
Mere brandishing of a knife would result in guns breaking leather, but shots wouldn't be fired unless there was an overt threatening movement made against the officer. Officers had been warned by FAMILY the subject was armed. Crazy people are like wild animals. They are dangerous and unpredictable and cannot be reasoned with.
You say you think the officers wanted to make it like a TV show and your "security experience" has somehow prepared you for this scenario. Let me make a couple of observations. 1) You're the one who has been paying too much attention to TV and movies, because "dispatching swat" isn't an option in these kinds of scenarios. 2) There is a reason you work unarmed security and not law enforcement. 3) Your user name now makes sense.
