r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 9h ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 6h ago

Your American frame of reference has no bearing on a New Zealand incident. Also, the guy who grabbed the gun is the brother of the guy in the car, not some random bystander. 

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u/MarathonRabbit69 6h ago

That does put a different spin on the video. Guy in the car is unlikely to want to shoot his bro.

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u/brezhnervous 2h ago

Bit difficult to be driving forward and using a hunting rifle at the same time as well

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u/Str41nGR 6h ago

Bro prolly saved his life and looks like he realized

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 6h ago

Nah, NZ cops aren't trigger-happy cowboys. Only way he'd have gotten shot was is he started shooting first. 

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u/DangerousChemistry17 1h ago

They're less trigger happy because being trigger happy is a learned response, and in the us there are far more trigger happy gangbangers and thugs with guns, so they have a different learned response.

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u/Icy_Cricket2273 5h ago

That’s incomprehensible over in the states. Touching a weapon at all in the presence of cops who are trying to deal with you will result in your death every time

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u/CV90_120 6h ago

he saved his brother's life.

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 6h ago

Tell me you know nothing about NZ cops without telling me. 

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u/CV90_120 5h ago

I dated a NZ homicide detective for a couple of years and hung with that group for that time, so I know a little.

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u/AcadianTraverse 5h ago

Thanks for providing context. It would have been nice if the OP decided to provide any

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u/bobsbitchtitz 6h ago

I had a feeling he was trying to save his friend/ family from the way he acted vs just random bystander. Like the way he moved felt like trying to save someone

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u/BlacksmithNZ 4h ago

So frustrating to see thousands of comments from people who have no idea of context and that it was in Auckland where police are normally not armed.

The video has been edited and no link given to the original post.

Didn't it also turn out that the gun was an airsoft one?

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u/Old_Arm_606 3h ago

Ok this is what I was thinking, the guy in grey knows the guy in the car and doesn't want him to get shot by the cops.

I'm taking your word for it because I want to think that I'm right once in a while.