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Originally Posted by plato
I'll not argue further with your viewpoint, though I worked with about 80 other officers who would have issued similar instructions to the driver.
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Then there are about 80 officers who should quit and find new jobs.
I was recently in a situation where a 24 yo young man in our upper middle class neighborhood, a diagnosed schizophrenic off his meds, was acting in a way that frightened his parents. We all gatherered around from the commotion and when his mom said "I can't handle him, I think I should call the police!", one neighbor blurted out "No! They'll shoot him!"
You make take solace that your co-workers think the way you do, but you've lost the trust of your constituency. When it's "us against them" and the "them" includes right-wing conservatives, maybe you should reconsider your approach.