My wife tells me 4" is plenty big!
Seriously though, a 4" knife is more than big enough to kill.
How do you keep him on the streetcar?
edit- not saying I support what the cops did, but my points stand.
Yeah sure its more than enough to kill, when used properly by someone with intent.
i have watched the long and short videos found online, the kid had MORE than ample opportunity to take the knife out and stab/cut/scrape/dice anyone he wanted.
Even when he was menacingly waving the knife around, not once did he lunge or use any truly aggressive tactic.
Keeping him on the street car? are you serious? there was a gaggle of fucking giant armor covered burley mans man cops outside , that could have kept him on the street car by standing a meter away from the door and poking him back in with unloaded shotguns, they could have tazed him,
OR
Get this, they could have actually spent 10-15 mins trying to TALK the kid down, instead of shooting him when hes by himself on a street car and no threat to anyone, literally.
and i have seen kids his size with a practice knife disabled by less trained individuals in many class situations, and the cops , they are taught how to do so in far more aggresive situations that i have experienced.
This was the most pathetic , disorganized attempt at helping a disturbed kid that wasnt half the size of any of those cops with a wee little knife that is legally able to be concealed and that he did not use once to hurt someone when he had more than ample opportunity.
its fucking bullshit, it reeks of terrible rationale, and i for one am FAR MORE TERRIFIED to be protected by those cops, than hoodrat punks wielding Victoria Nox.
Maybe if he had been the Techno Viking weilding the Sword of Schanara like the Swede that was killed yesterday this would have been a reasonable response.... maybe.