[Robert Teesdale]

Again,,,this a roadblock. They’re looking for an armed killer involved in a shootout that wounded several others.

No one is arguing that the circumstances were casual. Nor that a roadblock in itself is not warranted.

And what if he’s an accomplice? What if he’s hiding the killer in his car?

That's the risk you take when you enter law enforcement. If you can't handle that situation with less aggressive force than our soldiers in an active war zone you should not be involved in policing the citizenry.

You should be at home, playing Call of Duty.

[Justa]

“If you can’t handle that situation with less aggressive force than our soldiers in an active war zone...”

Right! The only time I had an M4 pointed in my face was when I mistakenly rolled past the stop sign going into the Embassy complex in the IZ in Iraq one morning in 2005.

My ID had bounced off the rearview mirror and I was bent over, trying to pick it up off the floor and the truck rolled forward past the ‘Stop, Wait To Be Called Forward’ sign. I was in an unmarked civilian pickup truck behind the last vehicle in an American military convoy. Ie, fitting the profile of a VBIED. When I came up with my ID only one Marine guard was visible the others had popped behind the blast barriers. The Marine was red-faced and screaming something about the “right to shoot you” and all. He kept saying it over and over.

I dunno it was 6am-ish and I was returning from an equipment pickup in the IZ. Hadn’t even had my first cup of coffee. It was a bad time for both of us.