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Bear Creek

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26. Too much movies and tv

Reply to inthewind21 (Reply #24)

Thu May 26, 2022, 11:44 AM

May 2022

Our police forces are not military operations. 2nd hand guessing and arm chair coaches looking for blaming are not helpful. Emergency response and incident control, just running in cause more victims. Seems to be the republican plan of the good guy with a gun.

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DEAR GAWD. *THREAD* - "Lots of nervous Barney Fife types with their hands on their pistols," [View all] Roland99 May 2022 OP

. . . niyad May 2022 #1

Police killings of unarmed black men are motivated by fear. sop May 2022 #2

Nope. You can't be more fearful of "no weapon" than an AR-15 or other assault weapon. Samrob May 2022 #7

RIGHT !? I am blown the f**k away !! The common theme in every unarmed shooting by LEO I see uponit7771 May 2022 #8

Hey at least a couple got their own kids out, right? JanMichael May 2022 #3

WTF ?! If the person is of color LEOs ***PUT*** themselves in more danger to be able to shoot !! uponit7771 May 2022 #4

Those cops who did not step into the breach BlueIdaho May 2022 #5

They need to be charged with negligent homicide! They've become accomplices! Roland99 May 2022 #9

I was busy at home in the early hours of the incident, before the casualty rates were reported. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #12

bet you anything Locrian May 2022 #29

Publish the crime scene photos. Buns_of_Fire May 2022 #6

Damn right Traildogbob May 2022 #17

Professional good guys with a gun failed us. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #10

Not like the movies Bear Creek May 2022 #14

Realism there. Typical person with a gun isn't prepared to deal with a bad guy Baitball Blogger May 2022 #15

Emergency Response Bear Creek May 2022 #21

Scapegoating? inthewind21 May 2022 #24

Too much movies and tv Bear Creek May 2022 #26

Not sure that would have ended well. cab67 May 2022 #28

If we could have saved even one life, it would have been worth it. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #30

yes, but.... cab67 May 2022 #31

You mean, the cops? Baitball Blogger May 2022 #33

We better get robo-cops Marthe48 May 2022 #11

Trump would run into a school unarmed to stop a mass shooter IronLionZion May 2022 #13

Yep, KS Toronado May 2022 #16

LOL! Had forgotten. Brilliant. n/t moonscape May 2022 #22

Well, let's put our own feet in a pair of those shoes. What do we do differently? Hortensis May 2022 #18

Can't really answer that, though, can we? Unless one of us has been trained as they have Roland99 May 2022 #19

Just be ourselves to get some benefit. Thinking keeps irrational anger Hortensis May 2022 #20

wow llashram May 2022 #23

Calling a cop a "Barney" is more polite than calling them a pig. world wide wally May 2022 #25

People need to understand, barbtries May 2022 #27

Either they aren't trained adequately how to respond to they were too scared... Historic NY May 2022 #32

This video shows that the police ignored pleas from parents to go into school LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #34

the good guys with guns doing nothing except parading around in their precious cowboy hats nt msongs May 2022 #35

Nothing says ban assault rifles like cops being scared of the shooter who has one. LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 #36