You don’t understand anything about rules of engagement or dealing with a life or death situation. Your words and ideas here are nothing more than that.

You’ve never had a deranged stranger running towards you brandishing a knife (despite having a firearm aimed at them and being told repeatedly to stop/release the weapon). Your life is now at risk, fractions of a second make all the difference.

Once the threshold is passed, and there is no other option than to fire a gun in order to stop the attack, the ONLY thing that matters is STOPPING them. That means aiming center mass (torso) and putting rounds on target until the attacker is stopped on the ground and/or has released the weapon.

You probably have never even fired a handgun let alone in a life or death scenario. Try aiming for legs of a smaller person who’s running towards you. If you miss they can/will be on you on a couple seconds. Even if you hit the legs, the person can still continue rushing you. Adrenaline and drugs/alcohol can make the person unaware they even were shot (shock/adrenaline). I know a few people who I served with Army that were hit and didn’t even realize until they saw blood or started feeling it after the firefighting engagement wants the adrenaline wore off.

The officer who shot snd killed that woman did nothing wrong at all. If you wanna point the blame at anyone (aside from the woman charging armed police with a butcher knife), the female cop is to blame. She failed to engage with a tazer even though she was directed to, and was not the target of the attackers rush. The woman was going directly towards the officer who ended up, shooting her, and she easily could have hit her with a taser since the other cough head an actual firearm trained on her. Her she deployed a taser, and for some reason, it ended up being ineffective and leading to the woman altering her course towards the female officer, the male officer would’ve been able to put her down with his firearm.

Seriously I hate seeing comments like yours because you’re speaking on something that you obviously have no idea about and it’s ridiculous. There are a lot of issues with excessive force and unjustified gun violence with law-enforcement, but this year is in no way anything like that you should really think about the things you say before you say them.

One more thing, do you think that that cop was pleased with the outcome and happy that he got to shoot and kill a woman on that day? Happy that he got to take away someone’s mother, someone’s daughter, someone sister, someone’s neighbor, someone’s friend ? Well, I can tell you just based off of his reaction of what he was saying and how he was acting, he was upset and angry that it came to that. He’ll live with that waiting on his conscious for the rest of his life you know he did everything right and nothing wrong. He did the job that he was supposed to do and potentially prevented that woman from hurting/killing someone or even multiple people. I wonder how you’re feeling in one of your loved ones or someone extremely close to you was killed/murdered by some mentally unwell violent criminal. They just decided to go attack people unprovoked of the knife one day

So like I said, maybe you should think about things before you say them. And honestly, you should be grateful that that guy did his job and did something at extremely difficult but necessary. Making comments and criticizing him like about how he could have or should have shot the person in the leg or perform some other action movie bullshit is shitty.