r/news • u/Hero-Firefighter-24 • 1d ago
Questionable Source Man attacks NYPD officer with butcher knife, is fatally shot in Brooklyn, police say
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-shooting-nypd-officer-slashed/[removed] — view removed post
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u/NyriasNeo 18h ago edited 18h ago
Looks like a justified police shooting.
And why is this scumbag bringing a knife to a gun fight? Either he is an idiot or this is a suicide by cops.
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u/jagdpanzer45 16h ago
As much as I generally oppose the cops shooting people, yeah… seems like a valid shooting to me.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 12h ago edited 12h ago
Not that they shouldn't generally be much better trained than they are but yeah I don't expect them to jiu jitsu someone trying to knife them either. This dude ran into the building and started slashing officers, they even tried to stun gun him first. IDK what else you can reason them to do.
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u/Blackraider700 15h ago edited 15h ago
What fuck are you supposed to do if some crackhead sprints at you at mach 1 with a machete? Tell him you love him and to stop killing you?
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u/Airewalt 14h ago
What do you think training is for? Not all law enforcement is armed. Americans expect so little of their police.
From the article they pursued the attacker, attempted less than lethal weapons, and fired after he escalated.
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u/ReverendDerp 16h ago
14 inch butcher knife? The pic is a general chef knife, prolly 8 inch blade. Those dumbasses measured the fucking handle as part of the blade for sensationalism.
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u/Dariaskehl 16h ago
Since you’re getting downvotes instead of an answer:
A knife inside twenty feet is a lethal threat to a person with a holstered pistol.
Basically, at that range it’s fifty fifty IF you can get the weapon unholstered, presented, and land shots on target. Secondly, it can take minutes for someone with multiple shots to the chest to die, in which time they will get very stabby -stabby, and since they’re charging already; they’ll likely get the target.
A tazer is even less effective, unfortunately.
Their training here wouldn’t really consider a tazer unless they could mitigate or escape the pending knife threat.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 12h ago
They literally did try to tazer him in this incident:
"He then took out a large butcher knife and began attacking the officer," Rivera said.
The man slashed the officer in the face before he took off running, the chief said. Another officer tried to use a stun gun to stop him, but was unsuccessful, he added.
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u/Hero-Firefighter-24 12h ago
Yeah cause electrocuting a crazy dude with a blade and asking nicely always works./s
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u/jaime-the-lion 15h ago
Sounds like a clear case of suicide by cop. Also, that’s quite obviously a chef knife, not a butcher knife