Scout Schultz and Our Current Society

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(09-19-2017, 12:53 PM)GMDino Wrote: People get upset (overly so in some cases) because of the cases where something similar happens (someone threatens police with knife or gun/is trying for suicide by cop) and the officers who handle it manage to arrest the suspect without killing them.

Every situation is different.  But when someone dies (whether they seemed to want to or not) it causes more emotions.  And writing a suicide note and saying "shoot me" isn't justification to actually shoot them.

But it is if they also call the police on themselves saying they have a gun, and then refuse to drop a weapon while advancing on the police. Police aren't required to let themselves be potentially stabbed just because you want to suicide-by-cop.

What it ISN'T a justification for is to attack and injury police and burn things because you decided that a suicidal person's life is worth more than a police officer's.

People have watched WAY too much TV. There's all kinds of "why didn't they shoot them in the leg?" and such going around. Those people also are the types who probably wonder why police don't shoot out the tires in high speed pursuits. Just way too much TV, not enough reality.

Heck, as it is tasers have been removed from use by a lot of police because of lawsuits where they have opted for the less-lethal (much like there's no real "bullet-proof" vest, there's no such thing as "non-lethal" weapons that will reliably incapacitate someone) and tazed someone, only for them to have a heart attack and die. Bam. Wrongful death lawsuit settlement of millions of dollars. So some just stopped carrying it. Mace won't stop anyone either determined enough, or doped up enough.

So instead a police officer was forced to take someone's life (which Fs up most of them), two more police officers were injured, with one having to go to the hospital for treatment, and property was burned... because some asshole decided they wanted to die and contrived a situation where they'd make someone else do it for them. But they're special, so other assholes decided that the person who was forced to take another's life, will have to live with that, and now will have their life put under scruntiny of investigation was the one in the wrong. So they'll attack people and break/burn shit.