30 LAPD Officers Gun Down Man In Middle Of Freeway...

[Fire_Moose]

a well thrown spear woulda worked too...

[Rabbi Dali Rick]

true but why throw a perfectly good spear?


the rebbi

[misfit]

so LAPD should be known as spearchucking law inforcement.?.... yea, that will go over well in south central..............

[MistressSybs]

A knife wielding man can be taken down by a team. This is taught in the mental health units in hospitals. It's called MANDT. My wife learned this when she worked at one. In the hospital to disarm a patient, they use a mattress to pin them against a wall or knock him down. But a shield, that they carry in the trunk, would work. A team grabs arms and legs. She has participated in this in practice. Yes, force is used. But certainly not lethal force. My cousin was a police officer and never used his gun, but was able to disarm a knife wielding suspect many times with very minimal martial arts training. Hard to make a judgement on this without all the facts, but if true it doesn't say a lot about the training of police in LA.

I'm sure the was something like this handy on the side of the freeway...

I don't know why they didn't just taser him... then we could have re-lived the whole 'don't tase me bro' moment and we all coulda gone back to arm-chair-quarterbacking something else.

[gyre]

It's routine enough around the country for mentally ill people that are no immediate threat, to be shot to death by the police.
Enough so, that our city has a response team for this purpose, added recently, after another lawsuit was paid.

A radical idea when first suggested, early last century.