the decedent where it was undisputed that the decedent was holding two knives, running at one of the officer with both hands above his head, ignored the officer’s instructions to drop the knives, and, after being shot once, appeared as if he was going to lunge after the officer while still holding one of the knives); Barber v. City of Santa Rosa, No. C-08-5649 MMC, 2010 WL 5069868, at *1-2, *6 (N.D.Cal. Dec. 7, 2010) (the officer acted reasonably in shooting the decedent where it was undisputed that the decedent suffered from schizophrenia, was agitated and armed with a butcher knife, and advanced toward the officer while making verbal threats and raising the knife in an attack position); MacEachern v. City of Manhattan Beach, 623 F.Supp.2d 1092, 1095-96, 1103-04 (C.D.Cal.2009) (<HOLDING>); Martinez v. County of Los Angeles, 47
holding that an officer did not employ excessive force in shooting a suspect who turned out to be unarmed because at the time of the shooting the officer had a reasonable belief that the suspect posed a threat and was armed holding that variance between indictment alleging that defendant threw a knife at the victim and proof that the knife fell out of the defendants hand as he was stabbing the victim was not fatal to conviction for aggravated assault holding that variance between indictment alleging that defendant held knife to victims neck and proof that defendant only pointed knife at victim was not fatal to conviction for aggravated assault holding that the officer acted reasonably in shooting the decedent where the plaintiff did not directly counter the defendants evidence showing that the decedent matched the description of a suspect who threatened a victim with a knife was armed with a knife and ignored the officers instructions to drop it and jabbed it at the officer while taking steps toward him holding a knife to the drivers neck