This is a wild story about

• how running with scissors is a bad idea
• alligator bites can’t even stop a dude on meth
• cops continue to have no clue what de-escalation tactics are

Honestly I think in this case the cops responded as they should. They tried teasing him and that didn’t do anything and then he tried to take a rifle from them. At that point they didn’t have a lot of options.

Maybe tazing someone isn’t the best idea. There are other methods of suppression.

Also once it doesnt work, most police forces in most civilized places know how to take a man down without shooting him up, even if he is trying to take your gun. Its only in the US that cops seem to think fuck any semblance of a threat means I can start blasting people to timbuktu

How would you suppress a guy that just swam in crocodile infested waters and shrugged off a crocodile bite?

Maybe the cops should have tried to ask the erratic, violent meth head trying ti steal their rifles to calm down nicely?