Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.
Amazing. There are nine comments. I see none.
Which means I’ve already blocked those commentors…
Yep. There’s one healthy debate but it’s started by a particular individual who has a very derisive and inflammatory approach to things…
Some good points, you could browse it anonymously of you normally use an app?
Urgh. I just did that.
And you don’t think laying the blame for this with the police is divisive and inflammatory?
Like I said, some good points.
This goober thinks blocking anyone who disagrees with him is winning.
It’s really important to stay in your safe little bubble and not be exposed to ideas you disagree with.
Local man Nathan Light said the couple were his “best mates” and were turning their lives around, telling Stuff that the man who was shot had dedicated himself to God and was due to be baptised in days.
Oh, damn. Dude’s going to hell now. And he was just days away from
retirementbaptism.Haha, just kidding. There’s no man in the sky and there’s nothing after we die. Instead of being frightened by that idea and letting con-artists weaponize your fear to lull you into a false sense of security (and likely taking your money), rejoice in the fact that you have a life to live to the fullest you’re able and there’s nothing stopping you from living the way you want to live. This goes especially for closeted, self-loathing homosexuals / trans people / anyone told by religious authorities that they don’t matter or are broken.
I’m tellin’ ya, it makes life a lot better.
I bet it was with Destiny Church… 'cause thats not a toxic cesspit of hate.
Yeah, the police were the ones who escalated this, not the nutters with knives.
You poor thing.
I think this is closely related to the report the other day saying police don’t handle these cases well.
Police were called because the man was threatening to kill the woman and himself. The police came, their entire job is to deescalate the situation. Instead they shot both of them.
Arguably these people would have been better off if the police hadn’t come.
Normally I would be on the side of the media only talking about the things that go poorly and that they can’t all go well, but given the report from the other day from the coroner saying how badly police are handling these cases, I don’t think they get an out on this one.
It was a knife. Why didn’t they use a taser? The woman was shot and killed after she picked up the knife to threaten the police because they just shot her partner.
I’m happy to wait for a wider report to pass judgement but I can’t see any way such a report would reflect kindly on police.
Given the failure rate of a tazer, there’s no way in hell I’d use one on someone in that state wielding a knife, and I don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation of police either.
I disagree. There was no risk to the public here. The police’s entire job was to protect these people. Regardless of mental state, police’s job is to de-escalate and save the lives of these people.
I’d change my mind if it turns out this was international best practice, but I think that’s unlikely.
I think you’ll find it’s standard practice anywhere to shoot someone that’s advancing towards you with a knife.
Every time something like this happens, a bunch of people who’ve clearly led very sheltered lives will come out and say they should have used tazers, or pepper spray, or hugs or whatever, regardless of how realistic that statement is.
Some people just aren’t able to be talked down.
This isn’t a surprise knife attack, it was the entire reason for the call. I’d expect some standard approach that plans for the scenario of the person turning on police.
Every time something like this happens, a bunch of people who’ve clearly led very sheltered lives
100% me, hence my comment that I’d happily change my mind if a review found they did this as well as they could. But the report the other day called out police as doing this poorly, and learning little in the past 10 years. Hence they don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Why is he comparing people who have led sheltered lives with supposedly trained police force. The police should most definitely not act like people who lead sheltered lives. Their entire job is to deal with these types of situations.
I’d expect some standard approach that plans for the scenario of the person turning on police.
I very much think the response we saw here would be a standard one across police forces worldwide.
You are very wrong. It’s extremely rare for the police to gun down citizens in Europe.
The police are supposedly trained to handle people with knives without shooting them.
Then why bother attending if they’re just going to shoot people dead.
I’ve been joking at work for years that we can no longer follow the best practice and how it’s now about finding the least-worst practise. Its a shame to think the police might be the following the same M. O.
(Mostly sarcasm)
Because someone would get brutally murdered with a knife if they didn’t show up?
Which is worse than getting brutally murdered with a gun?
There was no risk to the public here.
The dude running after a woman with a knife wasn’t a danger to the public?
Seriously?
A domestic violence incident. I mean the wider public.
Was this person not someone who deserved to be protected?
That’s my point. They killed the person they were there to protect.
The police had already shot him though. You’d think that would satisfy your thirst for punishment.
What’s the failure rate of tazer?
