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Originally Posted by huntsfurfish
yup totally different situation.
once they figured he was alone they could wait.
In Toronto they did not know. How would it look if someone was bleeding to death while they wait?
When he turned and walked back toward the officers with a knife he was shot. You cant see the look on his face or his demeanor in that video. From the top step on the bus he was dangerously close to the officers.
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Interesting. It is not a bus.. It was a street car.
The perp would have needed to go down the 3 or so stairs on the street car and then gain his footing on the pavement before he was even with a capacity to accelerate at an officer with a knife. The police could have easily backed off, given him room to get out, then used a level of force necessary to detain. Why fill him with bullets, then tazer when he is near dead or already dead while trapped in a street car? Wouldn’t deploying a tazer initially have done the job to incapacitate him?
The street car has many windows to look into to see if the street car was empty. They could have peeked in the rear doors with cameras or an officer while distracting the perp at the main door.
I would love to see the footage on the TTC street car. I am fairly certain they are equipped with video surveillance…