Piss off, Frank.
Your precious officers in their Kevlar vest are minutes, if not tens of minutes away when these things happen - and all you can do is denigrate these kids with teenage "machismo or heroic ambition" likely played a role
That kind of thing takes thought but these kids were just reacting... reacting in a way that should make their families proud.
So Frank, STFU.
He’s a law professor. At Berkeley. You can’t expect him to say anything smart! ;)
These interverners were young males who knew the reason God gave them that adrenalin and that testosterone.
To stop bad guys and save lives.
They should be praised, not sidelined for supposedly manifesting an unseemly desire to be a hero.
Everybody should thank God for boys like young Kendrick, who evidently knew how important it is to save lives, even at the cost of his own.