......or having to make a split second decision on what to do while a large, drunk and belligerent man charges you.
the type of people that go to "shoot first" in that situation shouldn't be cops.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
the type of people that go to "shoot first" in that situation shouldn't be cops.
I'm sure there were several commands given to him to stop and back off. The cop was there without backup and knew this guy had firearms in the house. There is no way he could allow himself to get into a physical altercation, where the other guy could either grab the cop's weapon or incapacitate him so that he could get his own weapon and finish the job. The report already stated that he didn't have time to get his Taser and deploy it.
This all comes back to the simple fact that if you obey the officer's commands, you won't end up dead.
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