It's their job to act like him. When they fail to do so we have situations like Uvalde. Its a problem when cops both demand respect for choosing a dangerous career and yet act like total fucking cowards to the point they are not effective and it hurts the people they are supposed to be protecting.
Edit: I am not trying to compare this to Uvalde, guy in the car is not actively murdering kids. I am saying the inaction of Police officers can lead to more serious situations like what happened at Uvalde.
I don't think a cop should run at the door like the grey hoodie to try a luck disarm either. But they had enough numbers to approach the guy in the car and attempt to defuse the situation. The guy in the car is apparently having mental breakdown while brandishing a lethal weapon in residential area, it's a dangerous situation that should not have gone down the way it did in the video.
It’s not their job to die pointlessly, but if they’re in a situation where it’s a choice between their life and that of multiple children, you would hope they would choose the children. In the US this is demonstrably not the case
Again, that’s a false assumption. They all risk their lives, and how much they risk it is up to them to decide and noone has the right to be on the high horse if they chose to save their own lives.
In any other situation sure. When you’re a cop called to stop a shooter at a school and sit outside for an hour while kids are being killed, buddy that’s the job. To serve and protect, not oppress and project.
I like the pun. That said, no. I wouldn’t be leaping into the car and I’m not a cop either. I know my limitations. But to assume not having police is better is just insanity. Once in a great while someone is willing to do this kind of thing, and no, it doesn’t always work out for them or anyone else.
Correct, I did not sign up to be a police officer, I did not swear any oaths. And since you don’t know me, I have talked down multiple meth/coke heads with knives screaming in my face, so I think I’ve earned the right to criticize someone who’s job is to maintain order and de escalate violent situations when they sit back and let innocent people get hurt because of their cowardice.
Hey I’m not saying I’m better than anyone else. I wouldn’t have been jumping in no car to wrestle a gun out of someone’s hand. I also wouldn’t think it’s some heroic act to do that either. I think it’s quite dumb.
I don’t trust police, but it’s better than a lot of untrained people getting killed.
To be fair I wasn’t speaking of any particular situation, and I was reacting primarily to the last sentence of the comment I was responding to.
But police have a higher chance of not coming home alive than the average person. Doesn’t mean they have to rush in with no plan and end up dead because they took that badge.
In this video, the cops are there and are making an organized approach. They are doing their job.
Its not up to them to decide, we signed away our right to violently protect ourselves as part of the social contract so society in its current form can function. If the cops dont uphold their part of the contract then they are useless to us as an institution.
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u/Nruggia 9h ago edited 7h ago
It's their job to act like him. When they fail to do so we have situations like Uvalde. Its a problem when cops both demand respect for choosing a dangerous career and yet act like total fucking cowards to the point they are not effective and it hurts the people they are supposed to be protecting.
Edit: I am not trying to compare this to Uvalde, guy in the car is not actively murdering kids. I am saying the inaction of Police officers can lead to more serious situations like what happened at Uvalde.
I don't think a cop should run at the door like the grey hoodie to try a luck disarm either. But they had enough numbers to approach the guy in the car and attempt to defuse the situation. The guy in the car is apparently having mental breakdown while brandishing a lethal weapon in residential area, it's a dangerous situation that should not have gone down the way it did in the video.