This suspect is lucky he is not dead. He gave everyone around him legal justification to kill him, on the spot:
RCW 9A.16.050, "Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:
(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, .... when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or
(2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his or her presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he or she is."
You had a threat to kill or do great personal injury, "I am going to fucking cut you." You have the means to carry it out: the knife. So the elements of law for anyone around this guy, cop or not, to attempt to take him out, or take him out, before he took them out, where present.
The suspect reported he was high and had not slept for 7 days. He was not rational and everyone is lucky he chose walking off. As it is he is probably facing Assault 2.
He could have charged 21 feet and plunged those scissors into an employee or customer in less time than it takes an experienced shooter to draw and place one aimed shot. Handgun bullets don't kill 75% of the time and the goal would not have been to kill. It would have been to disable the attacker to the point that the attack would stop before he could kill someone.
The victims were not injured and the suspect was not injured. It will be resolved in a court, not at the scene of the crime. That is a great outcome! (no sarcasm, serious)
That said, I think to make light of it is in poor taste. It is only comic because nobody died. We are lucky that neither the store employees, customers, bus riders, cops, or the suspect is seriously injured or dead.
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@4 Way to be that fucking guy.
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RCW 9A.16.050, "Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:
(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, .... when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or
(2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his or her presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he or she is."
You had a threat to kill or do great personal injury, "I am going to fucking cut you." You have the means to carry it out: the knife. So the elements of law for anyone around this guy, cop or not, to attempt to take him out, or take him out, before he took them out, where present.
The suspect reported he was high and had not slept for 7 days. He was not rational and everyone is lucky he chose walking off. As it is he is probably facing Assault 2.
He could have charged 21 feet and plunged those scissors into an employee or customer in less time than it takes an experienced shooter to draw and place one aimed shot. Handgun bullets don't kill 75% of the time and the goal would not have been to kill. It would have been to disable the attacker to the point that the attack would stop before he could kill someone.
The victims were not injured and the suspect was not injured. It will be resolved in a court, not at the scene of the crime. That is a great outcome! (no sarcasm, serious)
That said, I think to make light of it is in poor taste. It is only comic because nobody died. We are lucky that neither the store employees, customers, bus riders, cops, or the suspect is seriously injured or dead.
Never take anything "based on a true story" as genuine history.