[Gay State Conservative]

Having spent a long time working in a big city ER (as an administrator) I've seen more death than many combat soldiers. Given that experience I doubt I would have done what he did in *that* situation...regardless of any training I might have received.

Did the cop mean for him to die? I strongly doubt it. But he should have handled it differently.

[Jeff Chandler]

he should have handled it differently.

Could you elaborate?

[DesertRhino]

So what would you have done? Keep in mind that he was NBA/NFL sized, and hopped up on dope. Also remember there was an angry crowd pressing in from all sides that demanded he keep at least half his concentration on them.

For extra credit, tell us how many times you have subdued a human animal that large and out of his mind.

And as for combat soldiers, the exquisite difference between your ER experience, and theirs, is that soldiers also work knowing that they might be just as dead as the guy they saw die at ANY second.

Tired of medical people claiming “war zone” experience, and “hero” and “front line” status. If it isn’t in suffocating heat, numbing cold that turns your toes and nose black, dusty choking urban chalk dust... and YOU might be one of the dead ones any second, and it goes on for days or weeks, and you can’t go home at the end of a shift... it ain’t a war zone or a front line.
It just isn’t.