Cops taser 87yo woman while gardening with a knife.

[Lee-Lee]

100. Contains her longer was probably the right call they should have made

And yes, you can get injured very badly, and even killed, by an 87 year old with a knife trying to take it from them.

It can take one small move to go from “like just walk up and take this knife away” to getting cut on the wrist/arm so bad you lose a ton of blood and you have such bad damage that the use of your hand it limited for the rest of your life, ending your career and greatly limiting your ability to do lots of other jobs. I know someone who had exactly that happen. It was a routine call, nobody knew the guy had a knife hidden up his sleeve. That was the last day he worked law enforcement, it tools years of surgeries and therapy to get him back to where he could do a lot of simple tasks.

Best option would have been to try and contain her to the spot longer until she either put down the knife or