We wrote earlier today about a Hutchinson, Kansas police officer who was forced to shoot a man with a knife in self defense at close range. No sooner than we posted that article we stumbled across stories from Jacksonville, Alabama where an armed man advancing on officers with a knife was shot and killed, under similar circumstances, and a story from Ann Arbor Michigan, where a woman with a history of mental illness was shot and killed when she confronted officers in the hallway of a home and refused to drop a filet knife.

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