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Originally posted by KnifeMissle
I don't think I missed the "not" in your reply.
First, you responded to FEL except that your response had little to do with what he said. I didn't address this but it is now causing confusion for me.
Secondly, you said "this is not at all an obvious example of police going "too far" to stop a criminal," as if anyone had said otherwise. I attempted to point out the lack of opposition to this sentence, even by the original poster!
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I wasn't replying to anyone in particular when I said it was not an example of cops going too far. As for agreeing with FEL, I agreed that anyone who pulls a knife on a cop deserves to be shot twice in the chest.
As for the incidents in Minneapolis with the mentally ill people, I believe that in both cases police were responding to a domestic disturbance call and in both cases were approached by hostile people bearing knives. As I said before, the life of a cop is more important than the life of someone who is running at them with a knife. Don't want to get shot? Don't run at cops with knives. Don't want your mentally ill brother to get shot? Make sure he stays away from knives.