Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
A counterexample to this is the cops in the Covenant School shooting in Nashville that happened not too long afterward. You can find the body cam footage and see cops just doing their job correctly. I know we see a lot of new about our cops failing to do their duty in the US, but every once in a while you can see them doing their job right.
My god, how they showed out. Not a fan of the police, ACAB guy mostly, but holy shit that was professional.
They were called to engage, as happens with policing. They arrived quickly, asked smart questions of bystanders, and rolled hard.
I won’t link the video, but it will be shown around as a “how to handle shit” lesson for decades.
There was another one where a lone cop is talking to some kids at a mall, hears gunfire and runs towards it. He engaged and removed the threat perfectly professionally.
Uvalde made us all sick. If you’re entrusted with the protection of the public, you run towards the “bad thing happening”. Fuck me, most parameds are braver than those cops that day.
And no, it ain’t easy. Dad and I saw a man smeared off the highway. Dad ran inside to call 911 (pre-cell phone days). Yelled at me to check the man. Fuck me, I was 21. Seeing his head whip around the cabin, I expected a blood bath. Fuck am I gonna do? Stand there shaking while a man is dying?
Took me 5-10 seconds of indecision, and I ran to him. Nothing to see, but he was out cold, couldn’t touch him unless he was bleeding out. Later found his brain whipped around his brain case, died a day later. Wear your seatbelts kids!
Rambling here. Pick up a gun in the first place? You made a choice that might cost your life. Go fight, or put it back down and forever be a coward.
A counterexample to this is the cops in the Covenant School shooting in Nashville that happened not too long afterward. You can find the body cam footage and see cops just doing their job correctly. I know we see a lot of new about our cops failing to do their duty in the US, but every once in a while you can see them doing their job right.
My god, how they showed out. Not a fan of the police, ACAB guy mostly, but holy shit that was professional.
They were called to engage, as happens with policing. They arrived quickly, asked smart questions of bystanders, and rolled hard.
I won’t link the video, but it will be shown around as a “how to handle shit” lesson for decades.
There was another one where a lone cop is talking to some kids at a mall, hears gunfire and runs towards it. He engaged and removed the threat perfectly professionally.
Uvalde made us all sick. If you’re entrusted with the protection of the public, you run towards the “bad thing happening”. Fuck me, most parameds are braver than those cops that day.
And no, it ain’t easy. Dad and I saw a man smeared off the highway. Dad ran inside to call 911 (pre-cell phone days). Yelled at me to check the man. Fuck me, I was 21. Seeing his head whip around the cabin, I expected a blood bath. Fuck am I gonna do? Stand there shaking while a man is dying?
Took me 5-10 seconds of indecision, and I ran to him. Nothing to see, but he was out cold, couldn’t touch him unless he was bleeding out. Later found his brain whipped around his brain case, died a day later. Wear your seatbelts kids!
Rambling here. Pick up a gun in the first place? You made a choice that might cost your life. Go fight, or put it back down and forever be a coward.