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CIT training is helpful in recognizing the various mental health issues and when they are in crisis. It is not however part of the force continuum scale when using deadly force. When a subject is in crisis with a firearm, the firearm and its potential use, is the highest priority. Until the weapon is not accessible, you are not in control of the situation. Law Enforcement confronts people every day, failure to follow commands is a huge red flag. The first dep did a good job until backup could arrive. This confrontation that the Sgt was fired for, is nothing more than arm chair quarterbacking a decision that she made to get the firearm out of the subjects immediate control. The subject dictated how this ended. As we see, he did grab the firearm and both deps would be dead had that been his intention. It is amazing to me, how any body in LE would place CIT techniques a higher priority than trying to neutralize the weapon. I would be more concerned with the dep not covering the Sgt while she was deploying less than lethal.
