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The sheriff’s department’s incident summary stated that Deputy Gregory Chico shot Susan Lu, 56, after she refused commands to drop a meat cleaver and raised the blade “toward deputies.”

Frankly, the film has so little on its mind in general that if a butcher’s cleaver slammed through its skull, it would strike cotton candy instead of gray matter.

“But you don’t take a meat cleaver and do surgery.”

“But,” he said, “this is government reform by meat cleaver.”

He said Ibbotson's gang were the aggressors and the teenager, whose violent history included wielding a meat cleaver in a street, was "goading" the smaller group to fight.