Hi again,
a very difficult one but if armed cops ever had to do that to me i think i would drop said weapon and put up arms, after all, i would know that i could not shoot them, especially if i could see they were cops. However, its a very difficult lesson to learn with not much chance of a second chance and decisions being made in a very short amount of thinking time.
Also, gun culture in the USA is not the same as it is here, not having the right to bear arms to defend ones self in the constitution does i think make a difference. Maybe that makes the police in the USA a little less tolerant of such cases, ime not sure.
Either way, not very nice and a sad outcome which i am sure could have been avoided.
Actually, one point which crosses my mind is why the police always seem to shoot to kill? Why dont they try to disable or wound the perpetrator? Surely this would have been a better outcome?
Andy