The police didn't have the context of what the guy was shooting at, just that he was an active shooter. Trying to approach him would very likely have been suicide. They dealt with this exactly as they should have.
I didn't hear about this until this thread, so they have about as much context as I have, seeing a guy lying down on the ground holding a rifle to his own head.
Approaching him was not suicide, as demonsrated by the car pulling up right infront of him with a clear line of fire. (Imo they pulled up too close and too visibly and freaked him out, and that's why he chose that moment to get up.)
He was in a situation where pointing the gun the wrong way would equate to an instant hail of bullets cutting him up from both above and infront of him. It was pretty safe for an officer to approach him from the empty flank, as that car did.
IMO If you are brandishing a firearm in a hostile manner and acting deranged or belligerent, any escalation on law enforcement's side is on you.
It takes all but a fraction of a second to turn the rifle and shoot a snap shot at the direction of the officers. Yeah the odds are low for an unaimed shot to hit someone but if I was a cop I'm not taking that chance. If it's him or a minute possibility it's me, it's him 10/10 times.
A deranged person is reported as an active shooter and is holding a gun to his head, but won't pull the trigger. approaching him may be safe, or he might spaz out and shoot himself, you, or someone else. Nobody should be compelled to flip that coin.
The cops here contained the danger and prevented a crazed gunman from harming anyone else at an already big enough risk to their own lives. That is A+ work.
Nah just A work. A+ would be what the other guy said. You dont wanna do A+ work in America. Some cops have been fired for A+ work for putting officers at risk.
The police didn't have the context of what the guy was shooting at, just that he was an active shooter. Trying to approach him would very likely have been suicide. They dealt with this exactly as they should have.
I didn't hear about this until this thread, so they have about as much context as I have, seeing a guy lying down on the ground holding a rifle to his own head.
Approaching him was not suicide, as demonsrated by the car pulling up right infront of him with a clear line of fire. (Imo they pulled up too close and too visibly and freaked him out, and that's why he chose that moment to get up.)
He was in a situation where pointing the gun the wrong way would equate to an instant hail of bullets cutting him up from both above and infront of him. It was pretty safe for an officer to approach him from the empty flank, as that car did.
IMO If you are brandishing a firearm in a hostile manner and acting deranged or belligerent, any escalation on law enforcement's side is on you.
It takes all but a fraction of a second to turn the rifle and shoot a snap shot at the direction of the officers. Yeah the odds are low for an unaimed shot to hit someone but if I was a cop I'm not taking that chance. If it's him or a minute possibility it's me, it's him 10/10 times.
A deranged person is reported as an active shooter and is holding a gun to his head, but won't pull the trigger. approaching him may be safe, or he might spaz out and shoot himself, you, or someone else. Nobody should be compelled to flip that coin.
The cops here contained the danger and prevented a crazed gunman from harming anyone else at an already big enough risk to their own lives. That is A+ work.
Nah just A work. A+ would be what the other guy said. You dont wanna do A+ work in America. Some cops have been fired for A+ work for putting officers at risk.
I think it's a straight C.
Very little attempt was made to de-escalate the situation even once they had him totally covered from two angles.
This guy absolutely could have been flanked in a better when than driving a car right up to him, which they should not have done.