But what angered Mr D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back."
That’s Mohandas Gandhi’s (no Mahatma, he) non-violence come home not to roost, but to rot.
I’m not happy thinking this, but could the police have been in on this? That just doesn’t make sense.
I’m guessing the Indian cops didn’t fire because of complete surprise and a lack of leadership to get them organized and fighting. Without that they were useless. I read a report once concerning the number of infantry soldiers in combat who, even though they were trained to do so, didn’t even fire their weapons in combat. The percentage was alarmingly high. That is really the defining difference between the common infantry soldier and an elite unit. The soldiers in an elite unit will fight. These cops probably weren’t even trained to the standards of the common infantry soldier. Probably mostly traffic cops etc.
I wonder if the cops were ‘thinking British’ — didn’t their cops have batons and no guns for the longest time?