"We can't treat someone who is mentally ill,
the way we do someone who robbed a bank."

He referred to the police shooting of Keaton Otis, a 25-year-old mentally ill man who was killed during a traffic stop after Otis pulled a gun from the glove box and wounded an officer

If they are pointing a gun at you, you can, dead is dead, weather the shooter was mentally ill, or a criminal, once they go for the gun, all bets are off.