No, you're not.
People often say that to score points in a debate, but it's total nonsense.
You're not confused at all.
You disagree with me.
That's okay.
But don't make a silly statement like that.
You’ve gone from suggesting she run him over with her vehicle (I can imagine there might be some questions as to that legality of that or if not then even just the optics of that decision)
Yeah, she should have ran him over.
It would have been the right tactical thing to do.
Are you suggesting that the suspect was dangerous enough to shoot, but not dangerous enough to hit with the police cruiser?
At least by using the cruiser to take down the suspect, she wouldn't have endangered others in the neighborhood by sending missed rounds down the street.
to now suggesting she retreat to her car and wait for backup. So we have a person suspected of attacking someone with a knife, who has now at least threatened a police officer with the knife, and she should instead expose her side or back to him as she gets back into the police car and then hide inside?
Look at the video again.
He was slowly walking toward her car at first. She had plenty of time to get back in her cruiser without exposing her side or back to the suspect.
You could have done it, I could have done it, heck, a eight year old could have done it.
So while she calls and waits for backup the man with the knife does what? Who is to say he simply stops and waits outside the car? What if he then runs or drives somewhere and attacks someone else all while the officer did nothing?
It's a fluid situation.
YES, the officer must be able to think on her feet and make changes to her tactics.
If he turns around and starts walking back toward his car, she has options...
Try to deter or stop him, or allow him to return to his car and then stay in pursuit (which is not "doing nothing").
Or he runs over to the police car, breaks the window, and starts attacking her while she is stuck seated in a vehicle, essentially surrendering any and all advantage she had with her ranged weapon as opposed to his knife?
Look at the video again.
No way could he have run over her cruiser.
That's just nonsense.
And if he even tried to break her window, she could have shot him through the window glass and probably actually hit him without shooting up the entire neighborhood.
He actually got close enough to cut her, so she lost the range advantage by initially missing her target while he closed the distance.
And she would not have been "stuck" in her seat...she could have exited by the passenger side door.
From what you have said, it does not seem that you can think outside the proverbial box.
And her tactics are the ones that get officers killed?
Absolutely!
She is darn lucky to be alive today.
Don't defend poor decision making, or poor tactics, or poor training.
That does not help our law enforcement at all.
