Are we really going to sit here and pretend there's no alternative to police gunning down teenager

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57. Neighborhood eyewitnesses reported that the girl had a knife and tried to stab the other girl

The fact is multiple witnesses -- not just the cop -- said that the girl who was shot had a knife and was trying to stab the other girl.

From that distance -- with more people potentially in the way -- was there any way that he could have charged and disarmed her without any other civilians getting hurt?

This is sad -- but I do not know what else he could and try to protect the girl who was being stabbed.

Now -- if you want to address whether the training to shoot for center of chest twice is the best training -- that is understandable. I have spoken to a lot of officers who have been trained to shoot twice in the chest if they ever have to fire. They have all told me that the first time you actually have to fire it is normal to pull the trigger two to four extra times because of the stress of the situation. Maybe, the training should go back to shoot the leg -- but it is a smaller target that moves and may not stop a dangerous assailant.

The old argument was that assailants on drugs would only get angered and ramped up by being shot in a leg -- maybe it is time to rethink this.

I am saddened by the death -- but I really do not see what else the officer could do to minimize the risk of death to the other unarmed people in the crowd. Not with as escalated as the situation was by the time he got there.