deputy vs knife attacker

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Maybe Littlefoot will come along and suggest we don't know the other side of the story - that maybe the guy wanting to show the officer his nice new butcher knife...


Tough job - glad the police officer is okay
 

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If the attacker would have waited till be got right by him or behind him then it would have ended badly. Looks like he didn't plan it out well.

This.

A "butcher" knife (what most picture as a large thick-bladed kitchen knife) is typically a full-tang knife with a very pointy-tip and usually a lot of sharpened edge on a flat-grind. It's made to stab/slice through meet and smaller bones with ease and won't easily break. It's basically a fighting knife and well more dangerous at close range (in the hands of someone who knows how to use it) than any gun not already presented and trained on the bad guy.

Knives don't jam or run out of ammo and you don't have to have seriously good aim or a ton of skill to inflict serious damage with it (especially with the element of surprise and/or speed). This outcome was directly a result of actions by the officer and complete lack of training/skills/(possibly mental-capacity) of the attacker. The officer could easily have been injured or killed - I can't believe the officer let the guy get as close to him as he did (unless it just looked closer from the camera angle).

If you carry a gun, at the very least run through some of these scenarios in your head and have a plan (self defense shootings rarely go by the book). Look up some of the statistics on knife attacks - they're not pretty (knife injuries don't always end a life quickly either, so if someone gets the drop on you with a knife, you'll likely have to watch them finish the job while you're partially incapacitated).

If someone is attacking you with a knife, it is most definitely a self-defense justified shoot (especially at any sort of close range).
 

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Classic bringing a knife to a gun fight, I wonder if the officer would have let him pass that close if he would have just kept on walking, how is soft body armor on knifes? Anyone know?
 

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a LEO should probably stop a boy from stabbing another boy whether he was the aggressor or not,since the other boy was only holding his bicycle it would appear the kid with the knife was the aggressor to me.

the way some people think makes it very clear why this country is going to crap, idiots abound
 

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a LEO should probably stop a boy from stabbing another boy whether he was the aggressor or not,since the other boy was only holding his bicycle it would appear the kid with the knife was the aggressor to me.

the way some people think makes it very clear why this country is going to crap, idiots abound

Wrong thread man :)
 

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The flash of blue in the periph is what drew attention. Had to be. If he didn't throw the umbrella into view of the officer it may have been bad.

Wonder what makes you go from Mary Poppins to Jason in a split second?
 

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