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droden 107 points ago +107 / -0

just shoot the knife out of his hand and wing his leg. its easy and should be standard policy! -- joe biden
*if you hit him in the knee cap and he loses his leg the officer is liable. if you hit him in the leg and he bleeds out or loses the leg the cop is liable. if you shoot him in the leg and he gets hurt the cop is guilty of civil and criminal violations

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bucknutties [S] 78 points ago +78 / -0

Yep, have a psychologist on site giving the officers instructions. “Guys, I know you see a knife in his hand, but he’s really only lashing out at a systemically racist society that ended his dream of becoming a doctor.”

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omegapede 30 points ago +30 / -0

-> instructions given as the psychologist is being stabbed

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bucknutties [S] 24 points ago +24 / -0

Nah they’re in a building 2 blocks away looking through military binoculars...they’re not stupid lol

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Based_psychologist 11 points ago +12 / -1

:)

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Throwaway_Test 3 points ago +3 / -0

Like Marlon Perkins stayed in the truck on "Wild Kingdom".

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GirlyGirl 8 points ago +8 / -0

This is ONE of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard Biden say. It takes months around here to get in to see a psych and the police are just gonna have psychs on call or sitting around the office waiting to go on 911 calls with them?? Ridiculous.

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bucknutties [S] 6 points ago +6 / -0

Yeah, it’ll wind up being a social worker or some bullshit and those people are literally useless human beings.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

The mental health profession is backed way up everywhere. That was before CCPvirus, and I expect plannedemic made that much worse.

The left offers no solutions. Literally, not one.

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TonyGucciano 4 points ago +4 / -0

What ridiculous bullshit

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Light_HIV_Effect 1 point ago +1 / -0

Need a psychiatrist. Here, take this and we'll talk about your feeeelings in two hours.

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Italians_Invented_2A 16 points ago +16 / -0

Exactly.

It's harder to claim self defense if you aim for the leg. It shows that you didn't feel your life was under immediate threat.

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WerewolfDad 3 points ago +3 / -0

Also a much higher chance of hitting a bystander.

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FreedomIsntFree 14 points ago +14 / -0

Yep, you don’t shoot someone as a cop unless your life is threatened (obviously it was, the guy was chasing them with a knife) and then it’s only with lethal force to eliminate the threat.

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Schrodingers_Cat 10 points ago +10 / -0

Here's the way I was trained:

If you must shoot a person, you do so only with the intent to STOP them from doing whatever threatening criminal thing it is they are doing (running at you with a knife, aiming a gun at you, etc). That's it: STOP THE THREAT. You don't factor in killing them vs. wounding them. Your goal and intent is to simply stop the threat.

The most effective way to stop a person when you are forced to shoot is to hit a vital organ. Shots to the arms/legs/shoulders generally won't do. You need to hit something vital. That will almost always stop them in the shortest amount of time. Now, in order to give you the best chance of hitting some vital organ, you ALWAYS aim for center-mass of the target (person). That's what we train to do - aim center mass. That way, even if you miss by a bit, there's still a good chance you'll hit the target somewhere.

Think of it like this: If you aim for a leg and miss by four inches, the target is not hit at all, and that bullet is going on down range to hit who-knows-what (or who-knows-who). BUT, if you aim center mass (center of the person's torso) and miss by four inches, you'll still hit the target and possibly a vital organ. You have a much higher chance of actually stopping the threat by aiming for center mass.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is logical. Likewise, once the threat is stopped, not firing any more makes sense. Many here claim emptying the mag is taught. I have no idea. Can you speak to this?

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Schrodingers_Cat 2 points ago +2 / -0

My training was to fire UNTIL the treat has stopped and then stop firing. I've heard people say to fire two shots, reassess, fire two more if needed, reassess, etc.

Realistically though, if you're firing a weapon at a person who is trying to kill you, you are feeling a LOT of fear and adrenaline. It's very difficult to think clearly and logically under those conditions. You're probably going to just fire until the threat is clearly over, and you're probably going to be able to get many rounds fired before the person making the threat is down.

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WerewolfDad 6 points ago +6 / -0

Kyle shot the gun out of the guys hand who had a gun to his head. Kyle is on trial, the 1 armed attacker is free.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well that's some bullllsheeeit

Please notice I'm not saying you're wrong, just that those working conditions SUCK