The chickens come home to roost at Costco

Here's one version of what happened when police killed a woman at a Costco in Virginia:

http://www.webpronews.com/woman-killed-by-police-at-virginia-costco-2013-05

She made strange comments about the pizza. Strange by whose standards? What did she say?

She threatened employees with a knife and scissors. OK, that's reason enough to call the police. But she didn't hurt any of the employees.

She "advanced" on the police. What does that mean?

Their Taser was "ineffective" at stopping the woman. What does that mean?

The other deputy fired multiple shots at the woman, killing her.

One of the deputies sustained minor injuries. So sad.

I don't know what really happened, but I find this whole story hard to believe.

In just about every story like this, the victim "had scissors" and was killed because they somehow "threatened" the police. Police these days are well armed (baton, Taser, Glock, etc.), often wear body armor, are well trained, and go out in pairs (or more). How much a threat to them is a "strange" woman who has a knife and scissors? Why would a woman armed only with a knife and scissors attack fully armed police in the first place?

This all makes no fucking sense. Hit her with your baton, and that would have been end of story. Why did you have to kill her?

What happened is analogous to what we are doing in Afghanistan. They are strange, by our standards, but that's what we call "diversity". They do have knives and scissors. They do advance on our troops. So we kill them. But that's unnecessary, too. Leave them alone, and they'll calm down. They're only pissed because we're there messing with their country.

I have no idea why the dead woman was pissed, but if we had left her alone she probably would have calmed down. And she wouldn't now be dead.