Mentally ill doesn't change the fact that he was endangering lives and action needed taken to eliminate that possibility. Serve and protect. No clause related that says unless the life endangering person is mentally ill. Besides, cops in motion on such a scene do not have his mental state on a post-it note on their dashboard.
a child is considered a person who has not yet completed 12yrs of age. An Adolescent is between 12 and 18. Anyone over 18 is an adult. No gray area.
Again, police won't know this. Illness to control a mentally unstable kid rests on the parents. Poor parenting and upbringing likely led to his behavior. Behavior like that is not a result of being mentally challenged. That's upbringing. Cops didn't cause the events and actions of this kid. His care or lack there of did.
Actually being on seen as a first responder reacting to a life endangering situation > Suggestion to call of a pursuit by a dispatcher on the other end of a radio. As a LEO if I'm in danger of losing my life because I'm being attacked by someone with an SUV using it as a weapon, I'm within my rights and duty to shoot to neutralize that threat vs having to listen to a dispatcher on the other end saying retreat. No thank you. /ending that with a few .40 rounds. It was a good call.
The only fucks given about this are that once again, we require people to pass driving tests to operate a motor vehicle but any dumb fuck with a dick and a willing woman can make a baby and raise them horribly resulting in such sad situations.