“As former LEO I think you have a point. They may need to stop hiring gung ho types with split personalities that have anger management issues for starters. On the other hand people that haven’t been police officers don’t have a fundamental understanding of what they go through every day and the demands of the job don’t have proper understanding to make an informed opinion.”
I think more of the focus should be on the 11 cops who got it right.
JMHO but they didn’t escalate and helped keep this incident from getting all the way out of control.
Sadly that’s been overlooked because of the video. Of course the video was going to be of the out of control cop because he was the one drawing attention to himself.
I wish the chief of police would have named the guys who got it right and talked more about that.
There is NO video of the other cops, so we do NOT know WHAT they did or didn’t do! Also, that tiny b it of video that everyone keeps showing came at the end of close to TWO HOURS of the now resigned officer trying to control that 130 strong MOB alone !
“I think more of the focus should be on the 11 cops who got it right.”
Andy why would you say that? Casebolt was out of control, the other officers were doing things the way they were trained. They were doing what was expected of them. To try and sublimate the erratic actions of Casebolt by praising the other officers would serve only to allow Casebolt’s actions to be noticed less. I just imagine the Chief told Casebolt “you have two choices, resignation or prosecution.” For once, a PD managed to do the right thing when confronted with a situation where an offending officer was clearly out of line. Now they don’t have to have an “investigation” to try and cover up criminal behavior and drag it out so long that the public “forgets” about it.
> JMHO but they didn’t escalate and helped keep this incident from getting all the way out of control.
That one officer definitely escalated the situation. He definitely appeared to have control issues but then again I wasn’t there. Becoming a police officer is definitely becoming a less desirable profession since The One ascended the throne.