I won't speak to this incident, but generally speaking departments bring a lot of these problems on themselves. Back in the day when putting your hands on suspects didn't get you automatically suspended and sued, police didn't feel the need to pull their weapons as often. You often pulled a long metal flashlight full of D-batteries or a PR-24. The lawyers decided this created too much liability, so we started teaching police to talk, tazer or shoot, removing all the other intermediate weapons. We