WATCH: Grand Rapids PD Uses Bean Bag Rounds on Suicidal Woman

By Tactical-Life

An officer with the Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan was forced to shoot a suicidal woman with less lethal bean bag rounds in order to prevent her from further harming herself with a knife. Watch the incident unfold via the body cam footage above.

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Buildup

NBC affiliate WOOD-TV reports that the incident happened last Thursday afternoon. GRPD Officer Kait Bernardo, whose body cam video was released to the media, can be heard repeatedly asking the unidentified woman her name. She also tells her to drop the knife and assures her that police don’t want her to hurt herself.

“If you put the knife down, you can come and sit in my car and talk to me,” Bernardo says. “…You’re not in any trouble. We just want to know what’s going on here.”

Bernardo and several other officers tried to reason with the woman from across the street.

“I will talk to you, but you’ve got to throw that knife away,” Bernardo says. “I don’t want you to hurt yourself and I don’t want to hurt you.”

Enter The Bean Bag Rounds

Eventually, when it became apparent that …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life