In Accordance With Departmental Guidelines?

These four officers are fucking heroes.  No doubt about it.

Unloading on an autistic kid with a knife while on the other side of a barrier.

I, for one, am ecstatic that they all got to go home safe.

Because that's what's important.

That cops are safe.

That's all that matters.

The above is sarcasm, just in case you can't parse it.

I'm utterly fed up with cops being held to a lower standard than the general populace.

There was very little that autistic person could have done with that knife from the other side of the fence.  That means there was no imminent danger to the four officers.

The autistic person was also, apparently, contained in their own yard, so no imminent threat to the public.

What, most likely, happened here was Karen got mad at the kid, dialed 911 and started filming.

Except for The Boy having a knife or getting shot, we've been here and done that a lot.

The main difference is our sheriff isn't in the habit of hiring and covering for cowards.

The Boy, in fact, was a driving force in the local department changing training and guidelines for dealing with the mentally challenged!  Some of my legal drama contributed, in fact.