Police in Canada sure know how to get thier job done eh? They could have simply pepper sprayed or tazered the man but instead they decide to run him over with a car. What a violent country that is.
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He had knifes and was threatening to kill himself. It was the safest thing to do what the police did. It saved lives and the man's life. In Toronto, another similiar event went down today with an insane man in a rental car who set himself on fire. The police at little recourse but to box him in with their squad cars and douse the flames by forcefully pulling him out of the truck. This is yet another unfortunate situation in a series of weird events in Toronto this week.
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A guy has a knife, so obviously you hit him with a Crown Victoria? No I'm sorry, that just doesn't add up. He could've very well cut himself accidentally when the car hit him. I understand these things can get intense but there must've been a better way to deal with it.
I don't think they took the best action possible though. Hitting him with a car really doesn't seem like it could possibly be the proper way to deal with the situation. It just seems downright sloppy.
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I thought the guy in the police cruiser did an excellent job subduing the criminal. People b*tch about cops that don't do their job, and then they ***** about cops that do their job. It would have been violent if they started bashing his skull in after he was subdued, that didn't happen.
Tear gas would not make him drop the knives where a cop can get close enough to arrest him.
Rubber or been bag bullets can cause serious damage if your aim is a little bit off.
I've seen crazy bastards rip the tazer barbs out of themselves and contrary to what some of you have been told tazering doesn't always work.
Or they could have shot him.
Crazy bastard with two knives running around downtown is taken down with no injuries to the public, no injuries to the police, and a few cracked ribs to the crazy bastard? I say good job.
The car didn't hit him going 100 mph, they just took him off his feet. And our cops are trained to use their car as a tool, and that guy is one hell of a driver.
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however kharma, a 3 ton vehicle could damage a man far worse than a couple of knives. that could have ended much worse. it just seems like they panicked and/or were not prepared to handle the situation.
I highly doubt that if they tazered him he wouldn't have dropped the knives. Even if he "ripped the tazer off" which is highly unlikely, he'd still drop the knives to do so.
The guy was a good driver, and it seemed to work without problems this particular time, but that doesn't make it a good method. There are a lot more risks involved when hitting him with a car then there is tazering him. Had he tripped before the cop could stop the car, he could've easily been actually run over, and then everyone sticking up for the cop would have a different story. It'd only take one minor mistake from either party for that method to turn deadly.
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I see it different, that driver had control of the car, in a panicked state he would have mowed the guy down and not shown the control that he did. Like I said, police have used their vehicles to pin violent offenders up here before, it's not a big deal. Far better than people firing guns on a crowded street.
Like I said, the guy walked away with a few cracked ribs and the incident was brought to a realitively quick ending. I don't see the problem here. And for anyone who doeesn't think that the cop knew what he was doing I'd like to see them attempt to drive a car with that type of control.
On Apr 21 2003 in Burnaby BC a man suffered friom cardiac arrest after being tazered. It's easy to sit back and judge what these guys did and criticise. Personally I would save the criticism for the cops not doing their jobs.
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