Not at all.
I'm referring to an upvoted comment here that suggests soldiers wouldn't have been justified in shooting this kid in a war zone, due to ROE. The author of that comment pulled it straight out of their ass: there never has been and never will be an ROE that would have prohibited this use of lethal force.
The officer entered the house without a weapon drawn. Upon observing a threat, and was engaged by that threat before he was able to draw and aim his own weapon.
For the officers to have had sufficient time to engage him before he completes his initial attack, they would have had to have approached the door with weapons already drawn.
That's why I asked about the time frame. Meeting your expectation for this scenario
The only feasible way they could have feasibly de-escalated the threat or used a less-lethal weapon would have been to enter the home of a black family with tasers and nightsticks in their hands.
I am comfortable in assuming that you would have a giant fucking problem with taser-wielding cops barging into black homes with no indication of an active threat.
You want the officers to wait for backup? I am comfortable in assuming you would have a giant fucking problem with a cop sitting in his patrol car while an attack is in progress, just waiting around until his partner arrives.
No, there's no policy or standard that they could adopt that would actually make you happy, so there's no point in trying. Since you and people like you are going to be pissed off no matter what they do, they might as well ignore you completely, and focus on someone else.
So have the tactical patience to group properly.
Ah. The Uvalde Gambit.
I'm not trained in how to employ a tazer,
Clearly. If you had been trained on the proper use of a taser, you would recognize that they can't be effectively employed in the way you suggest.
You might as well be arguing that the cop should have just shot the weapon out of the kid's hands. It's just as feasible.
Gonna go with simpleton, final answer.
This kid's own family was unwilling to take such a hit from this kid, but you expect it from a complete stranger?