Instead of showing her hands as told, they said, the 16-year-old girl stood and approached them with the blade.
Two officers opened fire simultaneously, one with a less-lethal foam projectile and the other with real bullets, killing her two days before Leafa was to start her junior year of high school. She had recently moved from American Samoa to get a better education and was still learning English, her family said.
Leafa was among seven people shot by Anchorage police since May… more than twice as many as the department typically shoots in a year. Four of the subjects were killed.
Japanese police even have this giant metal poles with prongs on the end to grab people for this reason. You can pin down a knife attacker safely. Every school in Japan has 1 or 2, and police have tons.
They almost never fire a round.