Originally Posted By: Coyotehunter_Originally Posted By: GCHe maybe should have shot from a close retention position as the bad guy closed on him. The flip side is that he expected to go hands on with the bad guy in that last charge at such close range and you don't do that with the gun in your hand. The safest place for the handgun in a grapple is locked into the security holster. Hindsight is that grappling with a knife wielding nut job is a very bad thing. The officer is reacting to the bad guys actions and at those close ranges he has parts of a second to recognize what is happening and formulate a plan to react and counter the bad guy. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't.
IMHO the safest place for that gun was pointing it at the guy who was charging him with a knife and pulling the trigger until that guy with the kife as back on the ground.
I can agree with that. BTW, the Michael Brown shooting was in Ferguson, Missouri.