KenpoTex
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/04/BAG1TAKJIF1.DTLTuesday, January 4, 2005 (SF Chronicle)
REDWOOD CITY/Police kill man after stun gun, spray fail
Michael Cabanatuan
Police shot and killed a 35-year-old man who withstood efforts to subdue him for eight hours -- including being pepper-sprayed and shot with a stun gun and a weapon that fires hard rubber plugs -- before he jumped through a window and charged officers with a machete, authorities said Monday.
The man was visiting relatives on the 1200 block of Valota Road on Sunday when his family called police to report he was acting strangely and might have assaulted his nephew, Capt. Scott Warner said.
When officers arrived about 12:30 p.m., the man waved a machete at police and retreated into a bedroom, where he barricaded himself in a closet.
In an attempt to get him to drop his weapon, police doused him with pepper spray eight times, hit him with rubber plugs from a weapon known as a sage gun roughly 15 times and shot him in the chest with an electronic stun gun twice, police said.
He withstood the pepper spray and sage-gun blasts, Warner said, pulled one stun-gun probe out of his chest with his hands and used the machete to slice the second probe's wires.
Police opened fire when the man, still wielding the machete, jumped through a window and charged them, police said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kpix/20050104/lo_kpix/12346Police said they used pepper spray, wooden dowels, and a taser, but the man still refused to drop the machete.
"I've never seen someone completely impervious to all of our less-lethal options that we use," said Captain Scott Warner of the Redwood City Police Department. "It really didn't seem to have any effect. We could tell that it hurt, but it didn't hurt him in a way that caused him to surrender or cause him to drop his weapon."
Officers outside a window of the home fired the fatal shots after they said the man ran at them with a machete raised over his head.
Just another example of why you shouldn't rely on "less lethal" methods. Before anyone starts B****ing, I'm not saying that the various "less-lethal" options are never viable, just that you should always be prepared to use the real stuff.