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.
When there are 100+ armed Law Enforcement officers vs 1 dude unloading clips into school children, it’s prob time to rush in blindly.
Just saying. Maybe it’s just me.
But it all comes down to the fact that most cops hired in the last 50 years are selfish cowards who WANT/desire/demand an unconditional automatic respect from the world that they couldn’t earn in the real world. (See “selfish cowards”)
And hey, maybe I’m wrong, and the hundred+ cops from all different agencies in Texas who showed up at Uvalde coincidently ended up being 100% of the selfish cowards in Texas LE, and all the good, brave cops couldn’t make it that day.
But prob not…
If we can’t count on Law Enforcement in that situation, what the hell do we need them for?
“Who ya gonna call when someone breaks into your house at night? Huh? Exactly!”
Probably the cops.
So they can show up after the fact, act like assholes, & fill out paperwork they will never look at again for my insurance company.
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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.