Capsicum spray

[donnashuggy]

why doesn't it work sometimes?

[donnashuggy]

Was it a split second situation?

[debra9275]

GC

I have a couple of ex cops in the family , they would probably say the same as you. From the film which shows the moment she was shot ( filmed from a passers by car) it looked like she was surrounded by 5-6 police perhaps she went for one of them and their partner had no choice but to shoot her. Don't know all the circumstances yet

[village_person]

 I have no scientific proof but I should imagine that people under the influence of unknown chemicals might be capable of almost anything.

[myoclon1cjerk · Accepted solution]

That's right.I was confronted by a really big purple monster once when I was stewed to the gills on LSD.I picked him up and threw him 100 metres.That stuff saved my life that night.

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@debra9275 wrote:
It is sad. I just watched it on the news. That's exactly what I was thinking Horizon. Why not aim for arms or legs to stop her? Not chest or head

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repeated pretty much what

this-one-time-at-bandcamp said.

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@debra9275 wrote:
GC

I have a couple of ex cops in the family , they would probably say the same as you. From the film which shows the moment she was shot ( filmed from a passers by car) it looked like she was surrounded by 5-6 police perhaps she went for one of them and their partner had no choice but to shoot her. Don't know all the circumstances yet

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Witness Robert Duncan from Penrith said the young woman, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and casually sipping from a takeaway cup, ignored police calls to drop her weapon, reports.

“The woman then started moving towards them in a zombie like fashion and the police kept their guns on her and kept moving back, she came towards them wielding and swinging a knife,” Mr Duncan said.

“The woman came so close to one of the officers that he was going to be stabbed or had been stabbed and then I heard a pop sound and she went to the ground.

“She could not have been tackled, the way she was running and swinging the knife it would have been ­impossible to get an arm or leg shot on her … she just kept coming as if she was possessed.”

http://www.news.com.au/national/woman-carrying-knife-shot-dead-at-west-hoxton-sydney/story-fncynjr2-...

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@donnashuggy wrote:
I thought vision and taking a breath would be vital

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Sad. I know we aren't there when these awful things happen, but surely Rubber Bullets may help ? High Pressure Water Canon ? Shoot one of those Nets over her, so she can't harm anyone but herself.  Even shoot her in the leg / arms to bring her down. Then pounce. At least that way, she may still be alive.

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rubber bullets?

high pressure water canon?

why didn't someone think of calling

the public order and riot squad 

[donnashuggy]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
That's right.I was confronted by a really big purple monster once when I was stewed to the gills on LSD.I picked him up and threw him 100 metres.That stuff saved my life that night.

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[dellynt]

Donnashuggy why do you hate the police so much...., have you had issues in the past or do you simply have authority complex issues.... Do tell as there has to be a reason for your deep hatred of the police.,,

[donnashuggy]

I don't ner o