Australia: "Cops" (Police Officers) shoot (superficially wound) axe- (and knife) wielding female

Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2011-08-09 09:18

Link here. Excerpt:

'A police sergeant shot a woman when she refused to drop a knife she was wielding after she had rammed another vehicle and attacked it with a pickaxe, a witness to the incident says.

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said the woman, who suffered a non-life-threatening injury when she was shot in the lower leg, is in a stable condition in hospital after what apparently started out as a wild domestic argument.

The incident unfolded at Epping in the city's north at about 12.45pm on Tuesday.

Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana told reporters that the woman had confronted a man after ramming his car head-on and slamming the pickaxe through its window screen.

A witness said she had then grabbed a long knife from the rear of her car and had started swinging it at the man.'

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It is my understanding that officers (at least in north America) are trained to fire at center of mass, to ensure a kill, when an agitated individual lunges at them with a weapon. They are not supposed to take chances by disabling such individuals. If this was a man, would he have been as willing to risk going for the legs rather then center of mass?

I am glad to see it identified as a domestic dispute, showing a woman capable of perpetrating domestic violence, and with 2 weapons no less, and not justified as self defense.

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Submitted by Kratch on Tue, 2011-08-09 21:26