God I hope that's not legal. It seems like if it's not a hostage situation, you wait it out. The police department effectively decided to summarily execute the

God I hope that's not legal. It seems like if it's not a hostage situation, you wait it out. The police department effectively decided to summarily execute the perpetrator, which is a bit Judge Dred, if we're being honest here. Not having been in the situation means I'm armchair quarterbacking the situation, but I hope there is a least some legal guidelines one when this is okay coming out of this.