In Columbus, a cop shot a 15-year-old girl 10 SECONDS after he arrived on the scene

[TreasonousBastard]

156. Wow! A lot of experts here who know exactly what happened and what should have been done...

What we do know is that the cops got called about a fight, and when they got there a girl was about to be knifed.

10 seconds, if it was 10 seconds, is actually a lot of time when you're pumped and trying to get a handle on the situation. Not enough, maybe, but there's a lot of training out there trying to get you to deal with such emergencies. We don't know what sort of training the cop had.

We also don't know what else was going on-- who was shouting, who was trying to get the attention of the cops...

We don't even know for sure who it was who put in the call. Could pink dress have been the aggressor and knifing her was seen as defensive?

Five shots is not entirely out of line. If he had a Glock, it shoots pretty fast and you're told over and over that one shot, even if it hits, may not stop the malefactor. And it might not hit, so you shoot until you're sure. Or run out of bullets.

Anyway, I wasn't there and have no idea, until all the facts have been digested, what happened. But it looks like pink dress' life was probably saved. Or at least a hospital stay.