Policeman fired for not killing a suicidal man

Can we make any comparisons with how police in other countries typically deal with these situations? I'd like to know if this is a hard problem for all police everywhere, with similar outcomes, or if this is a problem unique to U.S. police, based on how they're trained.

Could a moderator please remove the "#comments" bit from the end of the URL of this article? :)

This is total extrapolation but I wonder if one or both of the other two officers who arrived later aren't somehow more 'connected' to someone at the police department or in local government. Perhaps there was even a "it's him or me" type ultimatum.

I&#x27;d equate this to breaking quarantine in a medical situation. Sure, to the doctor&#x27;s trained eye, the little child did not seem infected and could be welcomed in. This of course is a noble act for that doctor alone (putting himself at risk to save the child), but it is reckless in that it puts <i>the rest of the medical team</i> at risk without their consent and in violation of protocol.

We still shoot first and ask questions later. Anything else is Un-American.

The headline sounds like an onion article

this is proof that police officers in 2016 are meant to be nothing more than executioners. This is exactly what the current government wants America to be.<p>The insanity in our government and police departments is completely out of control. If they can&#x27;t behave the way the people of the country want them to, then we have to get rid of them.

Suicidal man had a gun. Nothing to see here.