I can't really fault officers for shooting a man charging at them with a knife and hatchet. Yes, they could have used nonlethal weapons There are no effective

I can't really fault officers for shooting a man charging at them with a knife and hatchet. Yes, they could have used nonlethal weapons There are no effective ones. Heck, handguns fail frequently enough to stop such attacks; some adversaries who don't get hit in the CNS only stop attacking after sufficient blood loss. Shooting in the legs is for movies. Besides still being lethal force (especially if a femoral artery is hit), a small, often moving a lot more than the torso target is subpar at best. If lethal force is justified, then shooting at the center of mass is the only reasonable policy, maybe followed up by attempts to hit the head (CNS). (NYC police, BTW, have some of the worse firearms training in the country. Turns out there are consequences to extinguishing your firearms culture.)