Yet another one — Cops gun down 20-yr-old black male near Las Vegas

[JJChambers]

28. What's the failure rate of tazers?

Did the officers have them at their disposal? Clearly they tried the pepper spray and it wasn't effective.

Here is a quote from an eyewitness:


David Reed, 61, said he was in a truck close to the action and spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

'They tried and tried,' he said. 'I thought he was on drugs or something. He was that strong; he was throwing them around.'



So they tried negotiating. Tried pepper spray. Tried physical restraint. And all of that failed. And this guy breaks into the cop car and is trying to get a gun from within.

Again, of all the questionable police shootings we have seen, THIS ain't in the same league. Your standard for police to use force is unrealistic and will never, ever be the standard they're held to --
Nor should it be.

It's disheartening that posters here don't praise these police officers for doing things right. They tried to talk him into handcuffs.
Tried to use less lethal. Tried to wrestle with him. None of it worked and he escalated it to the point of deadly force.