Yeah. I’m sure the cops could have handled this differently. And I am the first to call out asshole cops who are murderers and rapists.

But it is damn hard to tell cops to exercise an abundance of restraint when a clearly mentally ill guy with a knife who just stabbed two family members is running at you.

I usually ask myself “what would I do if I was the cop”

And when a cop kills a guy crawling on the floor who is sobbing, or kneels on a neck for ten minutes and kills a guy, or gives a rough ride to Freddy Gray - of course that’s cold blooded indefensible murder and/or intentional horrific harm.

But if I’m the cop and this guy is running at me…I don’t know that I’m going to let the guy get within a twenty foot radius.

Shitty situation, but the cop didn’t have many other options here.