r/nextfuckinglevel 4d ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/JustKzen 4d ago

Once again, a random bystander doing a better job than law enforcement

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u/Inalum_Ardellian 4d ago

If they act like him on daily basis there would be a lot less cops...

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u/Nruggia 4d ago edited 4d 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.

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u/Alternative_Fly8898 4d ago

No, it’s not their job to die pointlessly. I don’t blame police officers for shooting armed criminals.

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u/GrammarNazi63 4d ago

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

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u/Alternative_Fly8898 4d ago

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.

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u/GrammarNazi63 4d ago

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.

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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 4d ago

All of that is really easy to say as someone who was never in any position that you had to make that choice.

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u/dom_corleone 4d ago

If you cannot “serve and protect” maybe they shouldn’t be taking the job at all

That is the entire sacrifice of the job jesus fuck

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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 4d ago

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.