In such a situation, which is a lot of stress and mental tension you can't expect them to do everything right.
People always seem to forget this when they comment negatively on police actions involving the injury of a person.
Considering the fact that most officers go through councelling after having shot or killing a person, it's hardly a stress-free thing to do.
It's not a decision that is for anyone mentally-stable to make.
And the scenarios that police officers find themselves in are stressfull.
I wouldn't doubt that most officers who get in situations like this, where you have to take down an armed criminal, have never been in a similar situation before and are used to dealing with non-violent situations.
If I was a police officer in a scenario like this or in any other, where a criminal has a firearm perhaps or I'm in a riot, then I would only be able to cope by prioritising.
The safety of myself, my peers and anyone who isn't a danger would come first over not causing harm to a person who is either a danger or is preventing you from protecting.
That's not to say that I would place the priority of not harming a person down low, but it would be something that I would put second in my options.
While there were certain things that could've been made better in this example, I really dislike the great police-negativity that seems to be produced by people these days. A lot of people seem to believe that the police are there solely for the reason of getting in your way or that they're just thugs that do nothing for society. And in countries like America and the United Kingdom, it's a disgusting view to have.
It's not like we're under some Tyrrannical reign where the police are just an army used to keep the masses down. We're hardly Egypt or Libya or Syria.
The police officers did perhaps make mistakes in this situation. I can see where the one officer looking away and being startled and the officer firing a second round of shots at his back aswell as towards an open area (Where I'm assuming there may have been other people there) was a poor choice, but they stopped the man who was clearly a danger.
The man also pulled a taser out of his own face.
Those are painful and are intended to bring a person down to the ground almost immediately.
You can get people who are more tolerant to them, but you can also get people who are for example, drugged up.
Some people have been known to, while on drugs like PCP, resist taser-shots or in some cases wounding gun-shots.
I would be scared of a person who just took a taser to the face and pulled it off. It wouldn't take long for that person to move and attack either of those two officers, particularly if they were distracted for even a moment.
In the intense stress of the moment the two officers did their job.
