Suspect TASED by cops but yanked darts out....

This is not good...but is was unquestionably justified.

Inwood man shot, killed by cops was hit with Taser - but yanked it out: cops

Emmanuel Paulino, 24, shrugged off the Taser darts that cops first used outside his Inwood apartment building and lunged at officers, who fired at least nine times, killing him, police said....


In a transcript of the 911 call that set off the deadly early-morning confrontation, Paulino implored an operator to send police to his Vermilyea Ave. address.


"I'm ready to kill some cops right now," he told an operator.


...Officers from the 34th Precinct showed up at Paulino's apartment building at 5:37 a.m. and found him in front brandishing a 4-inch knife.

"They're initially backing off," the source said of the responding cops. "He [Paulino] keeps coming, and he's saying, 'Shoot me in the head,' [or] words to that effect."


A police sergeant hit him with a Taser gun, but Paulino pulled the dartlike electrodes from his chest and kept charging, the source said.


"The darts went into him," another police source said. "He's being shocked at the time, and he pulls the darts out [and] continued toward the officers with the knife."

OK, the man has a knife, is threatening the officers, is coming at the cops and rips the TASER darts out....I would say the police has reasonable fear for their life or serious bodily injury.  But that not enough for these guys.

...Friends and relatives defended Paulino as harmless and accused the police of killing him for no reason.


"He was shot because of excessive force," said Alex Candelario, 27, a cousin. "He was a good kid, a humble guy. He didn't deserve this."


Friends said Paulino was unemployed and on anti-depressant medication...


..."People were yelling in the streets and being crazy," said neighbor Jose Lopez, 38. "There's drugs and parties here every weekend."

OK, sorry he's dead (not really, but I'll be nice) but the drugs and unemployment are not justification for going at a cop with a weapon.  I'm wondering if some idiot will come up and scream "Why didn't they just shoot the knife out of his hand..."  But this is something that really drives me nuts:

TRANSCRIPT: 911 call shows victim was looking for violenceA knife-wielding man with a death wish who called 911 ranting "I'm ready to kill some cops" was gunned down by police in front of his upper Manhattan home early Sunday.

He's not a victim.  It's rewritable it's come to this but if he not taken his actions he would be alive.  To the officers who were in this shooting, you did the right thing.  Be safe.