https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/using-pikes-to-confront-and-im.html
I ran across the above video which shows some Asian people (China?), possibly mental health workers in white coats. Later they are joined by police while restraining (without use of deadly force) a disturbed man on a crowded street. Note that the suspect is threatening them with a machete-like blade.
Having watched numerous uses of deadly force by our police, I was pleasantly surprised to find what I have been advocating all these years seems to be possible — that police can develop less-than-deadly ways to handle disturbed persons with cutting or striking weapons.
Yes, if police in this nation can control and take a weapon-wielding suspect into custody without taking his life, why can’t we?
Here’s an assignment: Be creative and develop a way to control knife and club-wielding suspects without taking their lives!
from Improving Police http://bit.ly/2S0OpUB
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