I mean, I'd be a lot more pro-LEO if they handled business. The saying is "A few bad apples spoil the bunch" and you literally cannot tell me that the "good" cops don't know who the "bad" cops are. Instead of ever getting rid of them, they lie, cover, look away, and magically don't know anything except how to back "their brothers" 100%. That same mentality of blind support is what we see here in this tread.I'm often on the side of LE in these things. I recognize its a tough, thankless job etc. and give some leeway on the necessity of making decisions in a split second. But this is radically different than those situations. The 'law is the law' arguments are silly. The idea that reasonableness doesn't factor in is just inexplicable to me.
I mean OBVIOUSLY that old dude was the most dangerous threat the cop had ever encountered. OBVIOUSLY. But "even if" he wasn't we can see that this thread is full of enablers that are 100% onboard with that cop. I mean, if the old frail on the edge of death TERRORIST THREAT dude who visciously and remorselessly assaulted him had not been that then one might reasonably conclude that it was a crap cop backed by a crap union and a crap AG and covered for by other crap cops. That wouldn't happen. Cops are the best and better than us. Just look, they get 10% discounts at most businesses because they are 10% better right?
Plus, since none of the "good cops" are really speaking out to get rid of this guy, then obviously he can't be a bad guy, because if the good ones leave a bad one in, that'd spoil the bunch. And a spoiled bunch that's not respected by the public wouldn't make their jobs easier after all.