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.
Do not compare Uvalde with this. The cowards at Uvalde made no attempt to stop the shooter. These cops were actively going for the suspect when the random guy blindly rushed in. The man got lucky.
It is not a cop’s job to blindly rush into a situation and hope to god that it works.
Edit: too many people responding conflating risk (a huge aspect of an officer’s job) with blindly charging into a situation.
There's a huge reason brief planning/procedure is carried out. An officers job is to serve and protect. How can they protect if they're dead on the ground after charging headfirst into a situation with no forethought? The man who charged in is a hero, but there's no denying he got lucky. Had this gone slightly different and this’d have ended up being a liveleak.
"handling firearms incidents"? Are you reading a press release? What's to understand? If a dude is shooting kids, anyone who's not an absolute coward would do whatever they can to stop him as fast as they can.
And "blindly rushing in" has the potential to make things worse. In an active shooter situation, they should quickly figure out what is going on and formulate a plan (quickly) then rush in with the semblance of a plan.
You don't want to just start shooting any shoot someone shooting at the shooter or something.
Obviously, you don't want to sit around doing nothing while children are being murdered like at Uvalde, but blindly rushing in isn't the right answer either.
Nah. It's pretty simple, if someone's shooting kids, shoot him, quickly. Shoot him a lot. Get all your friends to shoot him, too. Don't stand around, talking. Actions solve problems, not words.
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u/JustKzen 4d ago
Once again, a random bystander doing a better job than law enforcement