“They had their guns out and aimed at him.
Why didn’t they release the dog?”
Of course I can’t answer that. Maybe they really were trying to end it peacefully and the guy started advancing on an officer and there wasn’t time to release the dog. Maybe the guy was standing there with a knife waiting for the dog and they didn’t want their dog to get stabbed.
There are too many armchair quarterbacks on this thread for me. People have the luxury of watching the video 10 times making judgement calls when the police had literally seconds to make their decisions. I am not a police supporter in abuse cases, but as I’ve said 100 times, police are not obligated to get their asses beat, get shot, or get stabbed as a condition of their employment. If you decide to use force against a police officer you should expect overwhelming force in return. That’s just how it works.
Well, I kinda of sort of agree with you. Its always easier to Monday morning quarterback and any investigation of this incident has to insole putting oneself in the position of the cops who were there and had to make a call. Its not like they had time to coordinate their response.
But I have just seen too many cases of the Blue Wall of Silence protecting cops from fair investigations to feel comfortable with a police investigation of a police matter. And I am sort of disappointed that so many cops and a service dog were unable to subdue a crazy old man with a knife without pumping so many shots into his butt.
Again, if the cops involved were homeboys and not white-bread from the suburbs things might have been perceived a little differently by the community there.