Bob is right on the mark when he wonders ‘if the current legal situation caused the deputies to hesitate to act.’
Whenever a cop shoots anyone he is subjected to all kinds of distressing judgmental evaluations by his own agency, the media and civil libertarians, none having been present at the shooting and all of the opinion that the cop could have handled it better. And when you add the prospect of civil litigation to the equation, it is easy to see why cops hesitate to take decisive action or resort to deadly force when necessary, thus endangering their own lives as well as the lives of the public.
L.A. DEPUTIES REHABILITATE DANEROUS CRAZY
By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 27, 2010
Deputies with the L. A. County Sheriff’s Office terminally rehabilitated a man who was attacking his mother’s boyfriend with a cleaver. They almost (IMHO) waited a tad too long to do it.
Deputies arrived at an apartment on Colima Rd. in Rowland Heights last night and were contact by a woman who told them her son was attacking another man in the apartment. The deputies entered the apartment and saw the son straddling the woman’s boyfriend and whacking at his head with a meat cleaver. The deputies ordered him to stop and drop the weapon "several times" but he persisted in his attack. At that time one of the deputies fired three shots. The son got up, ran into the kitchen and collapsed. He later died.
I can’t help but wonder if the current legal situation caused the deputies to hesitate to act and only one of them to actually open fire. The cleaver victim is likely to survive, but is seriously injured.
Clicking here will link to an LANOW L.A. Times story on this subject.
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