With a taser, the police officer aims and pulls the taser trigger ...... if it doesn't stop the assailant, he goes for his hand gun and kills the assailant.
With a police baton, it can be swung, pushed, jabbed many times. With two hands it can be used as a block. Police Departments around the world have been using police batons for 150-years while the taser is a new tool. Don't discount the 26" police baton as an effective tool in this situation in Gilford. If one had been used instead of a taser, the results would be very different.
Another police tool is mace, that gets sprayed into the assailant's face from a distance. Mace will repel a black bear, so's it should stop a 17-year old with a knife. It seems that NH Fish and Game officers take more care to not kill a black bear than the Gilford Police to not kill 17-year old, Mischa Fay.
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