It seems that this is a pretty clear case of why you shouldn't approach police officers with a knife in your hand while refusing to follow instructions. Is this really a 'tragedy' in the sense that much of the media is portraying it? Does this event have the right factors in place to become a major news story this week?
http://heavy.com/news/2017/09/scout-...killed-photos/A knife-wielding engineering student was shot and killed by police after refusing to drop the weapon on the Georgia Tech University campus Saturday.
Police say Scout Schultz, 21, of Lilburn, was holding the knife when they ordered it to be dropped. Schultz didn’t comply with the demand and instead walked toward officers. One of the officers fired a shot, which knocked Schultz to the ground. Schultz later died at a nearby hospital.
The type of knife Schultz had wasn’t immediately clear, but WSB-TV Atlanta reported “it appeared to be a metal, flip-open, multi-tool,” and the Schultz family attorney referred to it as being a “pocket knife.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/g...yM#.abEvVmwBmwAt 11:17 p.m. on Saturday night, the Georgia Tech Police Department received a call "of a person with a knife and a gun," the GBI said.
What followed took place outside of a Georgia Tech dormitory. The GBI said that Shultz "would not comply with the officers’ commands," and that the student had a knife.
"Shultz continued to advance on the officers with the knife," the press release read. An officer then fired, according to the statement.