WalkingWolf
Regular Member
I won't speak for others, but for myself this is nothing more than a straw man. I tend to avoid "criticizing" individual officers for use of force when it is, indeed, justified. But individual "justification" is hardly the point. What most of would like to see is reform of training and practices, so that the police might once again serve some fathomable function in a stable society.
Nobody would bat an eye if the manager had to shoot this woman in self-defense. And, indeed, if shooting her is the best solution we can envision, one wonders how paying the state to do this is preferable to the manager "cutting out the middleman" (so to speak).
No, folks don't call the police because they assume the police will do what they could have done themselves. They figure a squad of professionals accustomed to physical altercation might bring with them a toolbox encompassing means beyond the last-resort.
I'm pretty sure this is not a recording of that manager to the police dispatcher:
[video=youtube;F5zboV3_9KY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zboV3_9KY[/video]
Given how thoughtless and easily dismantled your "argument" was, I'm going to chalk one in the "reflexive apologia" column.
They were surrounded by tools, but conditioned not to use the most valuable tool, their brain. Almost every store has a shop broom, probably more than one. Unarmed clerks have used mops and brooms to successfully defend themselves over and over again. Are some police too lazy or just too stupid. It seems all some police and most statists care about is the power of the state to kill, if justified. Hell they do not even mind citizens killing if it can be avoided. The important thing is that the power of the state be glorified, because for lobbyists there is great profit in it.