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In reply to the discussion: Uvalde Police Let Gunman In But Tried To TASER The Parents [View all]Warpy
(114,695 posts)because the shooter was dead and so were the children. Still, they needed to know that anyone alive in there needed EMTs and other first responders, not an extra crowd.
Cops who can't handle people in crisis screaming shouldn't be cops. They're not an occupying military, no matter what Nixon tried to turn them into. We are not the enemy. The guys with the guns are. Barking orders at civilians DOES NOT WORK. I don't know what it will take to get through to some of these meatheads that that's the case, and it doesn't matter if they're in NYC or Podunk, most of them are equally clueless. Well, actually the Podunk cops are a little better, since the people in crisis are their neighbors.
Another thing they need to know is that a taser is not a tranquilizer, it's a weapon, and it can kill people with heart disease.