Officer Involved Shooting in St. Louis City

[Sasha]

Originally Posted by n david

Now, from the reports coming out of the Michael Brown shooting -- how Officer Wilson was severely injured before shooting MB. I'm more disturbed by this officer involved shooting than I am of MB's shooting.

This man clearly wanted suicide by cop. He's yelling at the two officers to shoot him, so, clearly he wants to die.

He has a knife, which can't be that big because his hand was holding it in his pocket.

He doesn't charge the police, but he walks towards them with the knife. (Which you can't see in the video because it's too far away and the knife is too small.

The officers warned him, then emptied their clips into him.

And the part which troubles me the most is after he's on the ground and appears to be dead, another 2-3 rounds are fired.

Why?

Why, after already in the middle of riots over an officer involved shooting, did these two officers decide to blast this guy?

Do they not have tasers? Surely, they could have used some other non-lethal means to subdue this guy?

Now I know MB was unarmed and this guy had a knife...but MB inflicted major injury to the officer, this guy had what, a pocketknife?

If I'm protesting anything, it's this shooting. They could have used non-lethal means to subdue him, but instead just shot him. Then when he was down and likely dead, one of them pumped 2 or 3 more bullets in him.

I'm saddened by this. Moreso than the MB shooting.

I'm sure it's easy to judge from the sidelines and from hindsight, but when you are the one who has a violent person coming at you, threatening your life, you probably aren't thinking, geez, should I taze him, use pepper spray, or just shoot him? If I shoot him, how many times should I pull the trigger?

It's been said that a perp with a weapon can attack within 21 feet before the officer can draw his gun and shoot. They are trained to kill. I don't expect anything less, especially if it's my husband who's life is on the line.

If you decide to taze him, you better hope the barbs find their mark. You also better hope he's fazed by your tazing.

If he was coming at your wife, are you really going to be concerned with the outcome, other than your wife coming home with you at the end of the day? Are you willing to scrutinize the officers action to kill the man who was about to attack her?