re: President of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance Shot Dead By Cop After Refusing To Drop Knife

I know that I will be in the minority here, but it didn't appear that he was an immediate threat to anyone, so did they really need to fire then? He had a knife not a gun and I didn't see any sudden sudden movements from the guy. He was just walking around slowly and he was being watched from all sides by officers at that point.

It's a given that he should have complied from the beginning, but the situation was under control for the most part. I'm not sure where he got hit, but if someone felt a shot needed to be taken then, couldn't it have been some sort of incapacitating shot like a leg shot instead of a kill shot? And before anyone says if you pull a gun you shoot to kill, I agree in almost all situations, but this guy was surrounded by post certified officers with guns and all he had was a knife. He would have gone down with a non fatal shot and if instead he reacted violently, there were multiple officers around him who could deliver that kill shot.