Police officer sacked for not shooting black man holding an unloaded gun: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-officer-sacked-not-...

> “I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it,” he said.

> “I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and de-escalate it. I knew it was a 'suicide-by-cop' situation.”

I'd be interested to know if that's common, or if it's a one off.