Your Crazy Relative Tried to Stab Cops And Got Shot? Too Bad!

By Bob Owens

The downside of highlighting incidents like Officer Josh Herring’s incredible 3+ minutes of work avoiding a suicidal man with a knife attempting to commit suicide by cop is that people develop the unrealistic expectation that it is always possible to resolve situations this way.

People look at Herring’s incident—where an injured, slow-moving man makes a halfhearted, slow advance across an area the size of a football field, where Herring had plenty of room to operate and no one else to defend—and assume that all police officers have the luxuries of time, distance, speed, and limited aggression by a suspect that gave Herring the luxury of not firing upon Javier Pablo Aleman a second time.

It rarely works out that officers have that sort of leeway.

Officers typically encounter dangerous suspects in close quarters whether they have very limited time, distance, and options for movement.

That appears to exactly be the case in Los Angeles, where relatives of one knife-wielding suspect want officers criminally charged from shooting her after she advanced upon them with an eight-inch knife.

The video, taken from a nearby security camera, shows officers getting out of their police SUV and drawing their guns …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms