Woman Fatally Shot By Police At Costco Handing Out Pizza Samples

weird maybe woudl like to hear more on it first.

There was no reason,none @all !?.

This was on infowars.com.

Her bosses and coworkers were freaking out because she was chasing them and waving around a knife at everyone.

Police draw the line when a perpetrator crossing it can kill them. Your first mission as a police officer is to go home at the end of your shift.

Facing someone with a knife, especially if they are belligerent or psychotic if only temporarily so, is challenging and scary. Disarming that person is dangerous. But, these are the police who are supposed top be trained to do just that. Along with the training they are issued and instructed in the use of a wide variety of non-lethal tools. The increased use of deadly force when confronting individuals like Mhai Scott is improper policing. A woman hired to hand out pizza samples runs out pf pizza and then suddenly starts threatening (if this is what really happened) is a clear indication of someone suffering from some form of mental disturbance and is need of medical care, not a bullet. The proper procedure would have been to first secure the area and insure the public safety. Second would be to attempt, non-threatening communication. If the communication did not have any positive effect then a diversionary tactic would be employed followed immediately by an overwhelming use of non-lethal tactics and tools. While the suspect is incapacitated they are then immediately disarmed. If police officers cannot do this then they should not be police officers. Their current tactic seems to be to threaten and scare the suspect into submission and or surrender. If the suspect becomes frightened and does not comply the officers employe deadly force. It seems lately that the police in this country have adopted a single minded policy. That is when dealing with a citizen, regardless of the reason why, the citizen is to comply without question, without argument and do so in a submissive manner. If the citizen does not immediately comply, questions or otherwise challenges the officer verbally the citizen is then arrested and charged with any numerous petty crimes. Interfering with a police office seems to the most widely used. If the citizen physically resists then they are beaten into submission, sometimes fatally. As in numerous instances the officer or officers go into a frenzy and continue to beat the citizen long after submission has been acquired. Finally if a suspect displays anything construed to be a weapon, regardless of that weapons lethality potential, the officers in most cases, but not all, demand that the weapon be dropped. If the citizen does not comply, regardless of the proximity the armed citizen is to the officers or other citizens, the officers employe deadly force. Not one but usually all officers involved will engage in deadly force once the first shot is fired. It appears these tactics were employed when dealing with Mhai Scott. I would like to know why every non-lethal tactic or tool available was not employed first before the decision to use deadly force was used. By “the book” the officers can claim that their actions were justified but I’m sure many would say, though justifiable, their actions were unnecessary and so excessive as to be criminal. I agree. We read stories in which a dangerous wild animal has wondered into a populated area and the police are called in to deal with it. In almost all cases the area is secured, the animal is cornered but not so tightly as as to cause overwhelming fear and then is subdued with non-lethal methods. That wild animal is then treated by a veterinarian and later released somewhere away from the populated area. If this can be done for a wild animal I have to seriously wonder what type of police officer would not afford the same treatment to a fellow human being. The answer seems rather obvious and is two-fold. First the officers are being trained to disregard a non-lethal approach and employee lethal force whenever “by the book” it is justifiable. 2nd we have too many officers that adopt such a rigid policy when dealing with the public that when they make a demand of a citizen that citizen must display submissive characteristics and submit immediately or face physical force, up to and including deadly force. In both instances whether an officer exercises the policy of employing lethal force without question and or feel that citizens must display submissiveness in their presence should be immediate disqualifiers from the positions they now hold as officers of the law.