https://www.resetera.com/threads/cop-who-was-at-the-parkland-school-during-shooting-arrested-on-11-counts.120901/post-21424681
Gee, I wonder if there's any correlation between US cops being a lil quick on the draw and innocent people being killed as a result, and the mentality that if you don't rambo into an active shooter situation alone and without backup you're a cowardly piece of shit, all the deaths are your fault, and you'll get prosecuted to kingdom fucking come as a result?
Nah, couldn't be, 1312
The Twitter mob has turned cops into such timid mice. Tragic.
I'm not saying that at all - but this dude is a 56 year old who was clearly surfing the end of his career in what he considered an easy gig (school cop) into retirement, being treated like he should have been a one man SWAT team against someone a third his age with a semi-automatic rifle.
I don't see how you can reasonably expect police to
not have itchy trigger fingers and shoot first at any assumption of a weapon, if you're simultaneously expecting police to John Mclane into any situation where firearms might be present.
Other countries don't have this problem, because other countries having a beat cop encounter a dude with fucking military level weaponry expect that cop not to engage, and to call for armed backup, who are trained and equipped to deal with it. They don't blame someone for not diving in with their pistol and becoming An Hero when they're clearly outmatched, and the blame for the crime is entirely on the shooters head, not whichever schlub was unlucky enough for it to happen on his beat.
How do you complain about the militarisation of civilian police forces, while simultaneously complaining they don't act enough like soldiers?
