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Point-of-fact:

I’m a lifetime swimmer - competitive - am rescue trained and understand both the risks to myself in the water in such a situation AND the liability of inaction.

I’ve segued toward LEO for years but never ‘pulled the trigger’.

I can’t say for certain how I’d have reacted as LEO to a belligerent who violated a police order and placed himself in danger (and, consequently, anyone who sought to rescue him, including the officers). But frankly, my common sense would have put me in the water at some point at a minimum for CYA and the other officers on scene would have owed me BIG TIME.

But as a civilian I would definitely have thought about my wife before diving in the water after the POS (vs. immediately going in after a child without hesitation) and I would sleep just fine with that decision.