Look, this is always a pointless debate to go back-and-forth about because it tends to become more dominated by emotion than logic. What I will say is that I d

Look, this is always a pointless debate to go back-and-forth about because it tends to become more dominated by emotion than logic. What I will say is that I do believe all the incidents described in the article were tragedies, and sadly preventable. And I do believe there were breaches of protocol by officers at the scene in all of the cases. But I just plain don't believe that the turning point moment for Richards and Trawick was the officers' decision to use force. If a mentally ill person has reached the point of charging at police officers holding a knife (and/or whatever Richards was doing with his knife and fake gun), they were already failed, woefully, by society and by their support network.