Posted on 02/23/2018 5:52:00 AM PST by Sopater
I realize this story is from the UK, but........
“Man drowned in shallow lake after firefighters ‘not allowed’ to rescue him
Charity shop worker died in Gosport, Hampshire, after rescuers said they could not enter water for health and safety reasons”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/feb/22/man-drowned-lake-firefighters
Don’t be Silly, that might discourage the next one!
You and I are not being paid to do it, if you(one) can’t do the job, you(one) shouldn’t seek out the job.
Find a job you can do, and don’t work as a fraud.
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“hmmmm.... In other words he ran and hid.”
Yes, it’s really a “different situation” when a cop isn’t the only one with a gun isn’t it. What I think is this guy had a “cushy job” being a School Resource Officer, thinking he’d never have to face real trouble. But then, oopsy, it happened, and he found out that he was, in point of fact, a coward. Either that or the BCSO’s motto is “to protect and to serve, ourselves!”
ill never forget watching Columbine go down...that was the worst...those 2 idiots just wandered around..taking their sweet time killing.
bkmk
I'm sick of this motto that the Cops have to go home safe. When did they stop laying their lives on the line? I've read, seen, watched years of the COP shows, and one or two would breech homes with a reported shooter.
If the initials reports are true, this Cop was a coward or incompetent. I've was only a lowly aviation sailor, but I know I would have made an effort crawling along ground and the looking for the first opportunity to divert his attention from the kids and buy time for backup. If it meant me being killed, so be it. They were children for gawd sake.
I first became disgruntled with some LEOs while watching them pull out of ground zero in the Rodney King LA riots. The city experienced a literal hell from that crappy decision. Then there is Ferguson and Baltimore. Need I go on?
I believe many LE departments have gone soft on their patrol types and rely too much on SWAT. Marines, Army Infantry, Army Delta, SEALs all move forward to the sound of gunfire, if even just one.
What are policeman for nowadays? Writing tickets and domestic disturbances? While watching COPS, we are often amazed how quickly they body slam someone down just because the perp tensed his arm, which is a sub-conscience reaction. Then when down and with large cop knees weighing on the perp's back, they keep yelling, "Stop resisting" because the guy or girl couldn't get their arm out from under their body. Of course there are many times they DO resist and get what hey deserve. However, we see many times the Cops talk some down and resolve the dispute peacefully and maybe with no arrests. Yes, most of the perps are trash and the cops find drugs and weapons. But I do think some Cops over-react. In this case, the Deputy under-reacted. Again, children!
Like President Trump mentioned to a widow, "He knew what he was getting into". Of course, better phrasing would have been, "He knew what he volunteered for has has our upmost respect" The Deputy knew he should put his life on the line to protect our children. He didn't according to reports. We'll see if the above reports are true and any extenuating circumstance that kept the Deputy from moving in.
Then what good is it to arm teachers and staff if there is no reason to believe that they wouldn't take the same course of action?
Either way, if he's too scared to do his job then he is too cowardly to be a police officer.
Why should we expect a middle-aged social studies teacher to confront the shooter if a trained and experienced police officer would not?
And this has what to do with the Florida cop? Was he Somali as well?
Good thing Steve Scalise's security detail was not of this mindset.
Tough shit. They are there to take the bullet for innocent civilians. I highly doubt that Deputy would have been hung out to dry if he made the smallest effort to move in on the shooter. He would be a hero (maybe a dead one) if he just tried to move closer to the shooter. He could have even popped off a couple rounds in the air behind a safe barrier which most likely would have diverted the shooters attention to himself and given more time for backup. What higher calling than to die for our children?
If the reports are true, he will go down as a coward or incompetent. We'll see.
He was assigned to this school for years. Should have been very well trained to take out a shooter. Problem is, many of these cops assigned to schools think of it as a soft pre-retirement job, not a position that you need to be ever vigilant.
Get outta here.....stop being so dam anal.
That coach gave his life unarmed to try to save kids
And he’s not the first in these instances
The Austin tower shooter is the first example I recall.....read up on it from unbiased sourcing
The problem is the cops in general and protocol and that includes SWAT or SORT
They don’t hurry in either
See Orlando gay club
I have as much or more faith in average grown man as the police in 2018
I remember in our music class we sang a song that paid tribute to him. It was a different time.
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