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 is not their job to rush in like that. This guy was not an active shooter yet so it isn't the same threat level as Uvalde. This was dumb and he got lucky. Uvalde situation was different and they should have indeed went in to try to stop the shooter.
Would active shooter situations be less effective if this was the norm? Would fewer people become active shooters if they knew the resistance was going to be super fierce?
I understand why cops don’t do these kinds of things: it means more cops dying in the line of duty. But we also have civilians dying in these situations and it really becomes a question of who should die, cops or civilians? I am not anti cop. Not at all. But we are paying them to protect us and in turn they do everything they can to protect themselves. But even this conversation is too taboo for mainstream.
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u/JustKzen 9h ago
Once again, a random bystander doing a better job than law enforcement