Police attack and kill crazed woman
In my city today a mentally deranged woman highjacked a delivery truck and made the driver take her to an affluent suburb. The driver was released unharmed, then she began wandering the streets of this community brandishing a knife and rifle. In short order the police arrived andtasered her but her coat was too thick to penetrate. She pointed the rifle at an officer another policeman fired several times and killed her, the only other reported damage was a bullet hole in one of the fine homes there. I ask the police who were there, did you even consider another option? might there have been a way to save the disturbed woman and protect the community? I am afraid a state of fear is so pervasive in the minds of people that they accept anything as a threat and anything as a good end if the possible threat is stopped. Wasn't the woman a person with value and the right to protection from the police? If she was not in her right mind she was acting in a way for which she can not be held responsible, and yet she paid the price. I wish someone in the police department in a leadership role would have the courage to try to save the woman from herself. A bullet in the shoulder a rush of several officers and the woman could have been disarmed and given medical treatment. Were the policemen afraid to risk that? Then they have no right to accept the hero title so often attached to them. I'm not a policeman and i don't know if i would have been brave enough to rush a crazed person with a .22 caliber rifle, but i do know that woman deserved far better than she got, and anyone who thinks the police were heroic in this action is a shibboleth, mouthing empty platitudes to calm his fears.
