“within any normal response to such a situation”
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and isn’t that part of the problem?? Overly militarized LE and hair-trigger training??
OH yes their superiors put them in a no-win situation.
However. The response to the civilians dead and traumatized should be, the same as for a superior for a messed up operation:
No excuse, SIR!
I am NOT buying it. Look at the militarized response which how many dollars and how much manpower put into effect, for TWO TRUCKS and several cowboys / ranchers and some women. REALLY? You can justify THAT response to a effect the arrest of peaceable protesters? Not me, thank you very much, retired Army that I am. It was not LeVoy’s decisions that led to his death, but the obscenely over-reaction by military power. LOOK at the video and what they did to the truck with the women inside, which presented at that time NO THREAT and tell me that the overly militarize response and hair-trigger training of law enforcement was appropriate.
Absolutely. But the time to sort that part out is not when you are faced by a bunch of adrenaline charged guys who have been told they are going into combat by their superiors.
That is something which should be addressed while their guns are in their holsters and their mag wells are empty.