{"id":35626,"date":"2026-09-02T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35626"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:31:01","slug":"why-didnt-you-die-instead-coppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/02\/why-didnt-you-die-instead-coppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t You Die Instead, Coppers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me you don&#8217;t understand lethal threats without understanding lethal threats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/02\/us-news\/mom-of-mentally-ill-times-square-killer-questions-why-cops-couldnt-grab-her-as-she-lunged-at-them-with-knives\/\" target=\"_new\">Touch and go Mom of crazed Times Square killer questions why cops couldn\u2019t grab her as she lunged at them with knives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>Probably too young or too female to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/590749\" target=\"_new\"><em>Run from a knife and rush a gun<\/em><\/a> either.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ve just read too many thrillers, but I always evaluate what to do if someone comes in the door with a gun or with a knife and what I have at hand, hopefully longer than a knife or machete, to defend myself with if needed.<\/p>\n<p>But grapple a person with a knife?  Not if there&#8217;s another option, up to and including hitting them with a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me you don&#8217;t understand lethal threats without understanding lethal threats: Touch and go Mom of crazed Times Square killer questions why cops couldn\u2019t grab her as she lunged at them with knives That&#8217;ll do it. Probably too young or too female to know Run from a knife and rush a gun either. Maybe I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35628,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions\/35628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}