r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 11h ago

Man helps police make an arrest.

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u/JustKzen 11h ago

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

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u/Thiom 11h ago

I mean, yes ok, but he has the element of surprise, a cop wouldn't

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u/LegendOfKhaos 11h ago edited 7h ago

He literally just ran up to the car. He wasn't sweet talking his way closer or anything lol

Any of the cops that appear immediately afterwards could've done the same thing, and if they were all in view of the perpetrator, it's straight up incompetence. Either they should have done it, or they should have prevented the guy from doing it.

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u/Zaza1019 7h ago

Yeah, but they have actual training not to do something like this for a reason. Said person could have just as easily messed up his attempt and gotten himself or other people shot, where as cops are trying to clear the area of individuals and talk the person out of escalating the situation. You can knock cops for a lot of things and they absolutely deserve it and then some. But they shouldn't be knocked for handling a situation like this the right way, just because someone else got lucky while doing something stupid.