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RML Hoos

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Disagree. Not unreasonable at all. Police are trained in hand to hand


self-defense/combat, how to disarm a person, how to protect themselves from someone with a knife. Especially if there are two or more officers, they should be expected to use other than deadly force in such situations.

Two officers, IMO should almost never be shooting any single person with a knife, stick, club, etc. They might get hurt a bit, sure, that is what you sign up for as a police officer, not to blow someone's head off if he is holding a stick or screw driver.

They have police batons, pepper spray and tazers - use them.





[Post edited by RML Hoos at 09/21/2017 3:46PM]

(In response to this post by Hokie5150)

Posted: 09/21/2017 at 3:30PM



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