
So do we want our police officers training to enter, identify a threat, and shoot children in the backyard threatening others with a weapon?
If that is the best choice to protect other innocents, Yes, without hesitation.
Again as has been stated several times now, criminals come in all shapes and sizes, yes, even rich, white mothers cooking in a upscale housing area kitchen. Even privileged children, in a upscale gated community, that kill the babysitter, daughter next door or parents. To ignore this truth and bass an argument on the lack of these real events is, simply not an honest discussion point.Do we want police officers entering a kitchen and identifying a threat of a woman cooking breakfast armed with a gun threatening the child in her arms and the man laying on the ground bleeding from a head wound?
If that is the best choice to protect other innocents, Yes, without hesitation.
Some will believe any who will write a negative piece for profit and ratings. With little consideration for plausible realities of what the agencies involved do.
Some use judgment based on reality and real life experience to make observations and judgments about what they read coming to vastly different conclusions.
Only History will prove either right.
See ya in 20 years, I'll buy the beer and we can see who was more correct.