If that’s correct, it just compounds the tragedy.
How in the hell could any responding crew just open fire on a uniformed security guard? I could see if the crew was from an adjacent district and didn’t know the area or people. Even then unless the guy was not responding to verbal commands from the officers there should have been an opportunity to figure it out prior to shooting the guy.
Unfortunately, your analogy of the profession is correct. I am glad my service is behind me. The job today is just that, a job. Just another line on a resume’ that leads to another job. Couple that with the change in the promotional structure and it’s a wonder there aren’t more incidents.
Honestly, I am not completely for sure he was in uniform, there are too many mixed reports on this. This is a very important detail that needs to be clarified.
Both my Father and my Uncle were Officers. They saw it coming to this years ago and got out. They saw incompetent wrongs that they couldn’t do anything about, their hands were tied, The “he is going to cause us all trouble” warnings and observations were completely ignored.
Unfortunately, the very same thing they were worried about is now happening. When all the good pickles in the barrel turn their heads, ignore, and don’t point out those very few bad pickles, the whole barrel eventually ends up being tainted. Then that one tainted barrel becomes representative of every barrel of pickles, rotten or not.
Before these events will stop happening, the police are going to have to start policing themselves first. It is actually in their own best interests to do this in house discretely rather than to have it become a huge public event like this.
Risks and liabilities should be very serious issues to consider as a first priority. Continuing to be blind to problems is not working.