This is more adroitly posted by AP than usual. One can't tell whether AP is (1) glad a father is going to be charged with a felony (2) laughing at someone who rushed to the aid of their child or (3) glad that terrorist tactics have made officials so wary they fight off a man (clearly an American of long descent) by instinct, perhaps even causing him to panic, when he was only deeply afraid for his daughter.
Most people don't actually have any experience dealing with trauma, we just have a concentrated dose piled on us daily by the press, so I would expect this father would not have known what the correct protocols were, nor that they had probably been significantly tightened. That he was agitated probably only panicked the rescue workers. And AP gets to add to our malaise and unhappiness.
Win-win for the drive-by media once again. *sigh*
*Exactly...
That was very well put. This is the flip side of the phenomenon of the unprinted headline: "Man shoots & kills home invader.
If they print THAT headline, it will be followed by the addendum that the man was elderly, or disturbed an Alzheimer's patient etc. This is why there has to be a banglist. MSM won't touch it with a 10' pole. -Or that the "intruder" may have simply wandered into the wrong house by "mistake".
Just to shed a little light on how ridiculous and destructive this kind of police state mentality is, if this father is convicted and he and his wife later wanted to adopt a child, the felony conviction would exclude him as an "appropriate" parent.
I believe the story mentioned that he is an anesthesiologist.
Which means, he went to college, obtained a degree, then went to medical school, earned his MD, then went to internship, then residency, then additional schooling to become proficient in anesthesiaology, then interned some more, worked at a hospital, etc.
I believe he was prolly well qualified to see his "dying" daughter, and prolly more qualified to administer aid than many of the persons standing around directing traffic.
His state of mind, on the other hand, and his judgement, may have been effectedf by the fact that she was his daughter.