Shouldn't police be expected to try to physically restrain someone with a knife over shooting them? It makes sense for a cop to shoot someone who is threatening to take many other lives, but not when they can trade their harm for one other person's imo. #MaKhiaByrant

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I guess so. Maybe they should carry batons for such a situation. Shooting is an escalation. Most people survive knife wounds pretty well, right? Especially since other emergency personnel know you are there.

@wjmaggos There's an old joke that the loser in a knife fight dies on the street while the winner dies in the ambulance on the way to a hospital

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@wjmaggos better in what way? I don't think shooting is an escalation. Lethal force is met with lethal force

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