Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
I am not sure what response you seem appropriate ?

If a young woman went on a stabbing frenzy which was pre meditated .....ie murder .....and the police arrived with firearms and shot her and the subsequent investigation found that she had the knife in her hand and was a threat and they were right to shoot her dead then I would agree with what they did .

If the police , as in this case , dealt with her without the use of firearms , and god bless the coppers who did , then it's up to the police, courts and medical people to see which way this goes

If someone who is a danger to others is shot dead by the police or tasered then it matters not wether they were mentally unwell or not . What matters is that the police , under tremendous pressure , made the right call . Which is usually subject to an investigation .

I really dont know what you mean by what would be my reaction if a mentally disturbed knife attacker was shot dead by the police ?

I would trust that the police had no other option .

In this case they arrested her at the scene .

Are you expecting me to say I would be happy , angry , sad , excited ?
No ulterior motive. Calm down. Just asking for your opinion, seeing as your all over every one of these kind of threads like a rash.
Im just wondering how far we strip these things back?. Do you really believe its the governments fault, that this innocent OAP has been butchered?
Is it the person who rubber stamped her release’s fault? Is it the girl herself’s fault?
Manslaughter is an easy way out for some folk.
Its cold blooded murder thats taken place here by a nutter!!. I use this term, because thats what she is.
Just like other cold blooded killers,
Nutters!
The majority of sympathy always seems to go to the killer and not the victim. This thread has proven it. If this girl was so seriously mentally disturbed, then she should have been locked up indefinitely for her own safety and the publics safety.
How can she be trusted to take her medication in her state of mind?
How can she ever be let out in public again?
The OAP wont be.