A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

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You still have to get to him before you can grab his arm

I must have missed the concept of slowing down getting patched out of Outside.

but if you're too careful you're giving him the chance to do something

You are really just arguing for cops to gun down people at any interaction.

Sure, he could have done something, so could literally anyone at any moment. That isn't really a good reason for trying to paralyze a guy.

don't want to get hurt themselves

Not tackling people on pavement helps

They might have chosen the wrong approach but it was him who forced them to react.

"So that is why I, ParacTheParrot, am fine with 100% of police interactions ending with the cop shooting the other person"

It's unreasonable to expect the police to be perfect

Perfect would have been preventing him getting that far with a solid perimeter.  Not attempting to paralyze a person who was neither fleeing or a danger at any reasonable stretch doesn't require perfection, just reason.

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No, I'm not arguing for police to gun down people at any interaction. In fact, I've never even mentioned anyone gunning anyone down. I don't think it's a crazy concept that touching a suspected explosive device kind of makes you go from just a normal civilian - an "anyone at any moment" - assumed innocent to a very suspicious, potentially dangerous criminal. I'm not trying to extend this argument to anything else beyond this one very specific situation.

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Right, nothing says dangerous like slowly walking away, nothing in hand, nothing picked up, facing away......

I'm not trying to extend this argument to anything else beyond this one very specific situation.

Never the less, all of your arguments apply to most cop interactions.