The Krankie Returns
Central Defender
Her gender and stature is very relevant to the situation she finds herself in. She may be ‘trained’ as you say, but if she’s 5’4” and up against a 6’ tall physically well built male acting irrationally and erratically telling her that “I’m going to take you to the gates of hell” then I reckon she’d be a bit worried.Absolutely not, but the lass is trained for that job. If she's a liability then she shouldn't be out there. Her gender and stature are irrelevant.
Also, reading what's on-line, I'm minded to withdraw my earlier comment that all he did was threaten the police. I've not read anything to suggest he even did that. He apparently suggested that "10,000 volts was nothing to him" after the first couple of attempts (yep, I've googled it and they operate at 50kV) and that "he was the messiah" (I'm sure that loon David Ike has said similar). So basically, he was suffering a bout of psychosis. As I said in my earlier post, all the police had to go on were their own observations: a neighbour who rang it in was unaware of him grabbing his old man by the throat or threatening his siblings.
The police have a tough job and I admire them for doing it. However, it doesn't give them cart blanche to kill a man. I do feel some sympathy for the junior officer as it sounds like it was the senior officer orchestrating the whole thing.
It’s a bit like you having spent a few days in a boxing ring going up against Mike Tyson with him telling you that your arse belongs to him.
I really don’t get this “they’re trained for it” line. Cops are ordinary members of society who have been “trained” in lots of things but who don’t always have the luxury of getting the manual out to refresh their skills just before they get thrown into the deep end of a shitfight.
Not one cop on here is defending the actions as reported by the media. If it is as reported then the cops on trial deserve to be punished for what they did.
What we are all saying though is that we have all had experience in dealing with this sort of situation which is more than the majority on here have who sit in their ivory towers pontificating about a situation they will likely never find themselves in.
And I can speak for every cop on here when I say that they get scared dealing with these situations. They fear for their own safety. What they have to do is deal with the ever evolving situation and it’s nowhere near as simple or as easy as some on here think it should be because running away isn’t an option.