Boulder police fatally shoot man playing with blades

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BOULDER, Colo. – The Boulder County Investigative Team is looking into a police shooting that happened at the Wimbledon Apartments on Madison and 30th.

Blood stained the concrete near where police say they were forced to shoot and kill a 42-year-old man who lived in this unit.

“There was a male suspect outside the apartment armed with a machete and a knife and he was making stabbing motions to one of the posts outside his front door,” said Sarah Hurtley, a spokesperson for the city of Boulder.

Concerned neighbors called police and when officers arrived the man was already back inside.

Police then forced their way into the man’s home.

“When they opened the door a male suspect came out at them out of the threshold and he had a knife in each hand,” said Hurtley.

Boulder police say they told the man to get down and when the man refused an officer shot him twice with his rifle.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Oh my God. He was gonna stab a post! Fortunately, he went back inside.

Oh, wait. The cops break into a guy's house who wasn't threatening anybody and kill him for holding knives in his own home.

Well done, officers. Thank God they had a rifle. I hope the SWAT tank was nearby for backup.

[Riftaxe]

2. So, A mentally unstable man armed

with knives comes at the officers and they shoot him instead of offering to play a game of checkers with him? Outrageous!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. Try actually reading the article this time around

They went inside his apartment to kill him. Does that change anything for you?

[Riftaxe]

5. So you are arguing

That the man was not wielding knifes?
Did not refuse to drop them?
Did not approach the officers?
Was not shot by a rifle?

I read the the article, exactly what is your point, or do you completely lack one and going for the usual tactic of overbearing arrogance?

He was a known domestic abuser known to the local PD, with enough obvious mental problems to be commented upon in the article itself.

[Glassunion]

4. I feel safer