usually lethal tho. Or at least, they have much lower mortality risk than blunt force and gunshots, and according to some data it's estimated "85% of injuries sustained from stab wounds only affect subcutaneous tissue" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab_wound#Epidemiology).

So to answer your question, I mean ya I would expect competently trained/experienced police officers to be able to factor that level of risk into their snap-second threat assessment. Not unlike the educators elsewhere in this post, talking about similar incidents that have occurred where they were teaching, and how those were de-escalated without the use of lethal force.

If Ma'Khia had been wielding a frying pan instead would yall still be making this "she was trying to kill" argument?? Bc she technically would have been weilding a more lethal weapon.

There's really nothing that can convince me she needed to be shot on sight like that. Even if she had been weilding a gun tbh. Not when officers can arrive at the scene of a mass shooting and have enough "restraint" to not take out actual mass murderers wielding AR-15s.