Victim's family filing wrongful death suit against King County

good. police should always be put in check whenever they shoot and kill someone. I don't want police in my hometown killing citizens over arguments.

whats the story?

On July 4th an older man in his fifties was becoming very angry with his wife and they were in a heated verbal argument. This happened between the White stallion and Mack's Corner on Woodinville-Duvall road. The man was intoxicated on alcohol...he apparently had a knife, which he used to slit his wrists, and then he went to sit down on a bench in his neighbor's yard when someone placed a call to the police for a domestic disturbance. Police arrived, one of the deputies had his AR-15 drawn when he got out of his cruiser, and they approached the man on the bench. The man got up, wrists bleeding, and walked slowly up to the officers. The deputy fired his rifle into the man's centre mass, and he died at the scene. The man was not armed, he did not even have the knife on him that he was carrying earlier.

In other words, this man could've been easily restrained, or tasered, handcuffed, and taken to the hospital for his injuries, and he would still be alive today.

This is frustrating to me considering if this man was high on marijuana, he would not have acted in such a deranged manner...and yet alcohol is the substance that is legal, and it is responsible for nearly all domestic disturbance calls across the country. Oh well...I'll end my rant right now.

brian wrote:

On July 4th an older man in his fifties was becoming very angry with his wife and they were in a heated verbal argument. This happened between the White stallion and Mack's Corner on Woodinville-Duvall road. The man was intoxicated on alcohol...he apparently had a knife, which he used to slit his wrists, and then he went to sit down on a bench in his neighbor's yard when someone placed a call to the police for a domestic disturbance. Police arrived, one of the deputies had his AR-15 drawn when he got out of his cruiser, and they approached the man on the bench. The man got up, wrists bleeding, and walked slowly up to the officers. The deputy fired his rifle into the man's centre mass, and he died at the scene. The man was not armed, he did not even have the knife on him that he was carrying earlier.
In other words, this man could've been easily restrained, or tasered, handcuffed, and taken to the hospital for his injuries, and he would still be alive today.
This is frustrating to me considering if this man was high on marijuana, he would not have acted in such a deranged manner...and yet alcohol is the substance that is legal, and it is responsible for nearly all domestic disturbance calls across the country. Oh well...I'll end my rant right now.

Do you think there will ever be a time when things like this don't happen. Do you think that government can solve these problems?

if everybody would stop calling 911 from there cellphone at the drop of a hat, many lives would be saved.