Drunken man attacks policeman with flag pole....

[All Tell]

...and is shot. Video included IMVHO officer clearly defending himself yet I'm sure the activists meeting about this will have a different view. Great another opportunity for unemployed former drug dealer and child support dodger Christopher 2X to get on camera.

 

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[Clyde]

No one can reasonably fault the officer.

[SportsGuy41017]

Any good officer in these situations will always look back and ask as many others will ask "what else could I have done?"

 

Sure, this officer is now saying "I which there was something else that I could have done". BUT, he had no choice. You can do a lot of damage to someone with a pole.

 

Being drunk can be used as an excuse when you do stupid juvenile things, no matter what your age, but when you attack someone, don't use being drunk as an excuse.

[TheDeuce]

Knowing that LMPD carries tasers, I could say "He could have tasered him." BUT, I think it's pretty obvious that the victim was trying to harm the officer, drunk or not. Officer did what he had to do.

[AverageJoesGym]

I don't have any issue with how that officer handled that at all. He retreated as much as he could.

[Jumper_Dad]

Louisville Metro Police shooting of black man criticized

 

Witness says the policeman shouldn't have shot the man...here is the video...officer pulls up around the 4 minute mark

 

[halfback20]

"He was drunk. [The officer] could have maced him. He could have used his stun gun. He didn't have to shoot that man. He wasn't no threat."

 

The man attacking a police officer with a pole wasn't a threat...

[All Tell]

I'm not at all surprised that the community agitators were critical of the officer.

[UKMustangFan]

Idiot.

 

No issue at all with anything he did.

[spindoc]

Center mass on that fellow wasn't very wide and was moving. Even at close range, pretty accurate by the officer.

[thehotsnakes]

I'll go ahead and say it, I pull the trigger 10 times out of 10 in that situation. Sad that the guy is dead, sad that this happened, but in that situation I am acting the exact same way.

 

I might reach for the Taser when he starts walking away, might. But I'm still going to take the Glock out of the holster when he picks up the flag pole.

[BirdBrain]

Of course at the 6 minute mark we get the iPad video from the locals....

[Bert]

No one can reasonably fault the officer.

 

Oh you don't give enough credit to the stupidity of many people.

[Bert]

The comments of people saying the cop should have used non lethal force have me wondering what sense of reality these people have. Someone is coming at your with an object capable of bludgeoning and reaching for pepper spray or a taser sounds like a good idea?

[theguru]

From experience, pepper mace only works on about 3 out of 4 people, some bad guys drink it up like it hot sauce. No way on the taser, the weapon the perpetrator was using would have almost certainly blocked the taser darts and the the chances of a taser deployment being successful would have been 10 to 15% at best. Baton would be a no go because the perpetrator has a superior weapon.

 

Firearm was not only the right choice, it was the only choice.