Quote: (07-29-2013 10:20 PM)samsamsam Wrote:
It was a knife. There were a bunch of cops. The odds of him being able to seriously hurt a cop would be slim since they have vests on and I imagine all are trained at disarming a knife wielding individual. If he was charging maybe I would give cops more of the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was on drugs, a whole bunch of factors.
They could have all just backed off since he wasn't coming out of the bus (it seems). This would allow them more time to react if he charged but just putting distance between them. No one else was on the bus so no one was at risk.
9 shots? Must be budget cutbacks or something and the cops are not getting time at the gun range. It seemed pretty excessive.
But my opinion is based on a video on a computer monitor. I have no idea what really happened. But it does seem like it might have been a slow night and the cops were bored- a lot of cops there.
You wouldn't want to take a chance trying to 'disarm' a knife welding individual. It's a knife. Why would you want enter the distance where it's most deadly? That's maximizing the risk to yourself. I'm sure there they have been trained here and there, but I guarantee it hasn't been drilled into muscle memory and maximum proficiency. Cops dont have time for that kind of drill training. I wouldnt risk if it if i had a gun. You need to do something like that a 1,000+ times. 'I don't fear the man who has practiced a 1,000 kicks once, I fear the man who has practiced 1 kick a thousand times' -Bruce Lee
I'm assuming the cops had 9MMs. 9 shots may seem excessive, but I've seen Haijis high on Quat take God knows how many 5.56 rounds before bleeding out and collapsing. If none of those shots hit center mass, the pelvic region, or the 'T' box region of the head it's not so far fetched he could still be a threat before his body goes into shock from blood loss. Shooting people in specific areas designed to do the most tissue damage and induce shock when your adrenaline is hammering through your body, you're nervous, sweats getting into your eyes, your breathing is tense is a lot harder than Call of Duty makes it out to be.
It's like those people who say Zimmerman could've just wounded Trayvon by shooting him in the leg. Never been in a fire fight in their life. It's dark out, your adrenaline isn't doing you any favors, your head has been smashed against the ground how many times, and they expect some barely trained civilian to make that kind of shot in the dark with a handgun? Fuck no. No one's making that shot unless they're a fucking Delta Force operator or something. You're always trained to aim for center mass because its a big target and full of organs.