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

Personally, I think this is more an indictment of the lack of mental healthcare in this country than whether it was a good shoot for a LEO.

That said, for those who in hindsight can break out the "Well should've shot him in the arm/tazed him/etc", somebody needs to dredge up that video of the cop down south that followed a suspect who someone called in as a robber and the cop told him MULTIPLE times to take his hands out of his pockets at a relatively close range. In a split second the guy shot the cop in the neck and kept shooting as he ran away (putting the lives of bystanders at risk). Without any yelling or barely any movement for a gun (that was in his pocket).

It can happen that fast. That's why LEOs are taught to address lethal force with lethal force. And apparently this person was called in as having a gun as well as a knife.