Down in Stuttgart on Saturday evening.....the German police got a phonecall to react to a weird driver.
This starts off shortly after midnight, and what they find is some guy with his mother in the car....driving in some crazy way. His adventure halted when he finally hit some advertising pillar. At this point, he got mom out of the car and started to walk away.
The police ask him to halt, and the guy reacted by turning on them, and having a 'sword' (roughly 30 inches long). The police reacted, trying at first to use pepper spray from the distance (no one says how far, but it's probably at least ten feet away). That failed, and so they (two cops) reacted by using their pistols. Yep, that was mostly it for the guy. Dead.
The mom? She had some type of injuries.....probably more so from the accident.
Nutcase? Yep, as the police went into the investigative phase, the guy was mentally unstable.....living at home.
SWR picks up most of the story.
The police union picked up the topic and bluntly said that if the state would just approve tasers....this guy would still be alive.
Tasers are a delicate subject in Germany. Various political parties are against them, saying that a subject might have a heart condition and the taser would kill him. Course, the cop-comeback is that with a pistol....the heart condition wouldn't matter.
The states with taser use or soon-to-occur? Berlin-City, with Hessen and the Pfalz to soon have police armed with the tasers. The rest? It could be another decade before all of the states approve them.
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