On Duty Shooting
Southside busy yesterday:
A man was fatally shot by police early Monday morning after allegedly threatening residents with a knife inside a South Side apartment building.
What we know: Officers responded around 2:50 a.m. to a report of a man armed with a knife inside a multi-unit building in the 1400 block of E. 75th Street. When police attempted to speak with the man inside his apartment, he confronted them while still armed. Officers deployed Tasers, which failed to subdue him, police said. As the man continued to advance, officers opened fire, striking and killing him at the scene.
A knife was recovered, and no officers were reported injured. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is[looking to railroad the Officers].
We might have added that last part.
This was about an hour before the off-duty shooting and as we've noted in the past, this over-reliance on tasers in a Deadly Force situation is disturbing. A knife is without a doubt a Lethal Weapon in an fact is used in far more murders than the "assault" weapons lib-tards always want to ban.
In any event, the Officers are all okay and the assailant, not so much. Good job.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
18 Comments:
I came on the job after metal flashlights became a prohibited item to carry and before the expandable asp was authorized. We used batons, mace, fists and verbal judo to resolve all less-than-lethal encounters and we liked it. The taser was like a novelty at the beginning and funny to watch in action. But it has become relied upon too frequently when another item on your toolbelt can do the job better.
Remember to never bring a taser to a knife or gunfight.
M’fr bring a knife to a gunfight? Asking for. Friend…
Should be able to throw those Tasers and "less than lethal" bullshit in the garbage.
Back to basics: Stop or I'll shoot.
Seemed to work pretty well back in the day. No confusion about what would happen. FAFO and you knew it.
Oh well, fat envelopes and all that...
In observation and experience, I found tazers less than reliable in subduing individuals on multiple occasions.
Somebody didn’t take their meds . Now the City will pay.
Tasers work 50% of the time. As a result in 50% of the times the assailant will be even more dangerous and wanting to kill you even more because he/she/it/they got bug zapped and survived.
Don't bring a taser to a knife fight. Start lighting these fuckers up after 2 commands to do something. How many times you see coppers telling shithead a command 10x before hands on. Taze hime after 2 is my motto
It's complete insanity to pull a taser out when someone is coming at you with a knife. This is what they're teaching at the academy at the cost of officer safety. It's horrible and it's wrong. Forget about officer safety. Let's appease the media, the criminals and the left wing nut jobs. If there's a trail of dead officers, they're fine with that.
That paramedic in Kansas City was murdered with a knife recently. RIP.
Tasers are only effective under ideal conditions. I’ve seen them fail more often than I’ve seen them work as designed.
Good job officers.
I prefer the 9mm taser.
Another body found in the building with slashing wounds?
verbal judo hahahahahahahahahahaha
I hate to break it to you, dumbass, but “stop or I’ll shoot” has NEVER been “the basics”. Even under the old Use of Force model that Marsh and Desmond came up with back in the early 90’s.
It’s morons like you, that didn’t pay attention, figured they’ll do it whatever way they want, someone else will help them out later… who fucked things up for so long, now we’re at this point in Policing. And you’re blaming everyone else.
I hope you’re retired!
Just wait till we get the new tasers!
Dude with the knife had murdered somebody in the building.
46% of the time.
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