Officers searched heavy woods for a man armed with two knives. He was lying close enough to touch, came up out of the brush, and went for an officer's gun.
A Peoria officer got out of his car and a man shot a woman five times in front of him. What happened next was legal. The shooting itself was not clean.
Findlay officers counted 92 separate commands to put the gun down across 49 minutes. He kept saying shoot me. Then he raised it — and one officer fired one round.
Two IMPD patrol officers worked a door for ten minutes with a gun confirmed inside and a woman being held. No SWAT, no negotiator. They forced it, he fired, and only the suspect got hit.
A traffic stop for expired tags became a two-hour standoff with a negotiator, a psychiatric team, a drone and three failed less-lethal options. It ended at a measured twenty feet.
A West Chester sergeant with twenty years on found a man using a woman as a human shield in an upstairs bathroom. He fired one round. Three other officers had an angle and none of them fired.
Monroe County deputies were told a man was suicidal and armed with a knife. Nobody told them he was hard of hearing. On camera he says "What?" — and the 911 audio that would settle the argument is sealed.
NYPD had a barricaded man with a shotgun and nobody answering the phone. ESU was stacked at the door when the house blew. Fifteen seconds later he walked out of the fire armed and wearing a vest.
