Anyone here have a problem with the cop in Columbus, Ohio shooting that black teenage girl?
Yeah definitely. But it's one of those like 95% of people (or at least white people) are OK with.
What’s the solution to knife wielders? Some kind of non-lethal incapacitator/taser?
I don't know, what does like the entire rest of the world do?
Not have the Second Amendment, mostly. I think this is one of those "lawful but awful" scenarios that the Chauvin defense was trying to piggyback off of. In my perfect world, like yours, cops wouldn't carry guns. But they have to, because everyone has guns. In this scenario, I guess he could have tried to bum rush and tackle the knife wielder, but if that was not possible, it's kind of tough to say he should let the knife wielder stab the other girl one or more times until the cop could (hopefully) physically restrain the knife wielder. That said, I don't think we need to be training cops to shoot to kill every single time. Sometimes less is more.