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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
I've already said how I would've handled it. (maybe it was a different thread, not sure).
They kept him there for 8 hours. Obviously if the guy really wanted to kill himself, he had all day to do it. Why did the police all the sudden decide to rush this guy... which is what they did... they all rushed up there, then shoot him in the back with two tasers on the edge of a cliff?
Why not simply wait the guy out? He's not going anywhere. And at some point, he's either going to have to eat, shit, or sleep. Are you really telling me that 30-40 cops cannot arrest one fucking guy at the edge of a cliff? They couldn't wait him out, or at least get him away from the edge a little bit and THEN taser the shit out of him?
Seriously, what kind of idiots tase a fucking dude on a cliff's edge?
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A great many people simply disagree that waiting out a murderer with a weapon in his hand for even more hours into the darkness of the night and possibly into the next day or beyond was the proper thing to do. At some point when negotiations fail, action has to be taken to end a standoff. It is impractical to have dozens of police officers and equipment standing around on alert for a suspect to hopefully eventually fall asleep. What if it lasted 24 hours or more and this was occuring next to your home or place of business instead of at the edge of a cliff soemwhere? Depending on where the incident is occuring, such a stand off is also potentially dangerous to the community, neighbors and disruptive of the community.