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So they state The man, Madgiel Sanchez, was shot around 8:15 p.m. outside his home soon after the police responded there to investigate a hit-and-run accident. The first officer to arrive called for backup, pulled out his Taser and ordered Mr. Sanchez, 35, who was on his front porch, to drop the two-foot-long pipe he was clutching, the police said. The officer’s commands did not register with Mr. Sanchez. He ambled off the porch toward the officer, waving the pipe in his right hand, according to the police and a witness. Julio Rayos, a neighbor who lives a few homes away and knew the man was deaf, said he saw the confrontation unfold and sensed trouble. He said that he ran toward the officer with his wife and his 12-year-old daughter, all three of them screaming that the man could not understand the officer. Ok from what I read the man is deaf, So he can still see a full uniformed officer. Based on where I live Georgia Law states this when you can use Deadly Force: So with that being said from what we know the man is not mentally challenged, and he can see. I can tell you I will be almost willing to bet the courts will come back with the shooting being justified. Now the officer maybe up for civil law suits but that always happens. Similar case https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/30/da-no-charges-state-trooper-who-shot-killed-deaf-nc-man/97246704/ In this case the deaf man was running at the trooper with a metal object. Perp was deaf also. The trooper shot and was justified in the shooting The end of the day some shootings are questionable etc.. I don't agree with all. But 9 times out of 10 I can argue case law, and give supporting case law to a lot of incidents. I do it for a living first hand experience.

No you don't tackle someone with a metal pipe its not happening. You have to look at the big picture he could possibly hurt you or someone else with that pipe. If you look at any case/ case law any person that had a knife or big objects have been shot and justified. Georgia Tech police shot a man with a multi tool knife because they asked him multiple times to drop the knife. They had to take out the threat. The shooting ended up being justified. At the end of the day if you were put in that decision I would like you to tackle him and tell me the outcome.

lol now that funny

I don't know the particulars in this case, but this is a general response.. A metal pipe is being used as a deadly weapon, just like a car, just like a knife. The general public always says "why didn't you tase him?" A response to that is you have to be close enough to tase him. The taser probes don't have unlimited string. At that point your putting your self at risk of getting hit by a pipe. Your not going to bring a taser or OC to a knife fight the force option in that is not equal. So say you tase the guy with the pipe and it doesn't make contact has happened thousands of times or the taser has no effect on the person that has also happened then what are you going to do now you are dangerously close to a person that has a pipe with no reasoning. A pipe can kill just like anything else, its not about coward its about going home at the end of the day. No officer really wants to shoot, and kill anyone. But the general public likes to criticize the officer for not using this force option, when at the end of the day the person who is saying it has no idea what they are talking about, and or has never been put in that situation. The same people have been invited to do a police simulation on a projector, and was put in a scenario, and has ended up killing someone when it was not justified. Then they said oh dang I didn't realize you only have a couple seconds to make that decision. A lot of people want to Monday night quarterback a decision that was made, and just end up sounding really ignorant. People should also read state law, and federal laws. The 21 foot rule is used all the time, but of course all situations are circumstantial http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/articles/2014/09/revisiting-the-21-foot-rule.aspx

You know before I would tase people a bunch of times and they would die, but they don't anymore I have no clue why maybe I just got a mod. But agreeing with Kallus the point the gun and arrest function has always worked for me unless something is major wrong and the game is about to crash anyways. Yeah I would have to agree!