This is what cops deal with...

Time to balance the scales.

I've been trashing police and the militarization that I see in their forces for at least the last few months if not the last year.  But just because I see them heading in a stupid direction doesn't mean that they don't deal with real issues.

The above video is a case in point.

Is it possible that if the cop that was providing slack to the one that approached the car didn't tackle the woman that we would see headlines blasting the fact that cops shot and killed an older woman?

Yeah we would have.

But the kicker is that this short video, at least to me, show that a shooting would have been totally justified.  Additionally the officer doing the tackling did not react properly to this situation!  He placed himself in danger and a by the book  response would have been for him to draw his weapon and fire.

Why?

Because the lady made a slashing motion...in effect she attempted to kill a police officer.  Her surviving this encounter is really an act of God and extremely restrained law enforcement.