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Originally Posted by Rochard
And I think you are grossy under thinking this. You utterly fail to understand how dangerous this is. I believe this footage is from a helicopter and at one point he directed the officer behind the naked man to pick up his gun from behind. Sounds reasonable until you think of the field of fire - That would have required the police officer to walk directly into the line of fire with three or four offices pointing their firearms directly at him.
Multiple firearms involved and an armed naked man who is most likely on drugs. The moment he starts running back to his gun all bets are off. They had two options at this point - shoot him while he is unarmed, or allow him to go back to his gun and back to a dangerous situation.
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I'm not saying it wasn't dangerous. I'm not saying that the police were not under stress. I'm not saying there was no chance of things going badly. I'm just saying that I feel there were other options they could have tried before shooting him. I grew up around cops, I am friends with several cops. I am well aware of what they go through, and in many cases, I can see where they are justified in shooting someone even, at times, when others may not. I just feel this was not one of those times.
I can see your side of it and I am happy the guy wasn't killed which makes this not as ugly as it could have been. I would have rather they gave the dog a few seconds to do its thing and take the guy down before they shot him. That's all.