...even safer if you hide under the bed.
...even safer than that if you lock yourself in the bathroom. No windows, correct?
But wait- why do we have to hide from the people we pay to ostensibly "Protect & Serve" or enforce our laws (but not prevent crime) so that they don't murder us in our own backyards for simply totin' the Glock, protecting the block?
How lucky for the Criminal being pursued too- that their main objective for the day was to kill an American, and they were willing to walk away from their Law Enforcement duties to provoke a situation and get a chance to live their dream.
Bad plumbers get sued out of business / become uninsurable. Etc.
It's also SUPER INTERESTING that we have a huge problem in this country in that our Plumbing is not professionalized, and by and large is not standards-and-discipline based.
When faced with these Organized Crime Syndicates... errrrr... "Government Employee Unions" we fold every time, because the Gov negotiators on the side of the people have nothing to lose by constantly removing accountability and constantly increasing rewards.
So we found ourselves in a situation- How do we stop widespread misconduct?
I KNOW! Someone in the room said... if I had a camera watching me at work, I wouldn't do any misconduct, because it would be recorded!
BUT WAIT... how do you record Plumbers all over the town?
Force them to
wear the cameras- and now that they know they are being recorded, they will cease all misconduct to avoid speedy conviction and (in the worst cases) long prison sentences.
But the cameras didn't stop misconduct, they merely documented misconduct. Standards are prevented from being applied, and so now you can watch 24 hours plus of blood boiling misconduct online. Stuff that will make you pause the vid and look up the outcome- which is usually further enraging.
...and then Plumbers go online and cry about being disrespected as an occupation.
Think about that cop that tried to rescue his wife and kid in that school. He goes to work everyday with his buddies that disarmed him and removed him from the school. I wonder if he gets invited to the cookouts and other get togethers. Does he invite them over for dinner with his family?
That is wild stuff.
Nobody can say how they would react until they are in that (exact) situation themselves, but I hope I would have the impulse to shoot my way in, provide service, and get the hell out, and if my "buddies" want to shoot back at any time at least I died trying.
...and now I feel weird because, why wouldn't anyone do exactly that for anyone's kids when faced with that situation?
Forget about they-didn't? Would I? Would you?
Unfortunately, you can almost bank on LEO response being unprofessional and incompetent these days... and so must we do everything ourselves?
She then gets her one wit about her and goes back inside, calls 9-1-1 and then, in another death-defying act of brilliance, goes back outside to where the people who already shot her still are? She literally calls 9-1-1 and acknowledges she’s been shot and then goes back outside to end up proned-out on the street in cuffs.
From the portion of the call that was published, it seems that she believed right up until the end that the Police were there to help.
She didn't actually think that real Police would break off the chase and start playing Simon-Says trying to set her up for a sport kill
Remember Daniel Shaver?
Don't Move. Put your hands on your head. Don't move. Get on your knees. Walk on your knees towards me. Don't Mo....
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
I saw him move.