[scott_uw]

Heads should fly at the police department when things like this happen so that police fear being held accountable for stupid decisions they may make.

A person with a blunt melee weapon poses little threat to the public or 6 police when shot 6 times and if true that he was executed by an officer after being told to hold fire, the officer should be charged with murder. A police officer like this does a great disservice to his fellow officer's and should not be sheltered by them, especially since it is incidents like this that devolve people's trust in police and makes it more dangerous for the whole.

Having spent much time with people with mental disorders I know how irrational some of them can become in an instant, that ability to make thoughtless decisions does not make their lives valueless to society or to their family.