I don't see how it is helpful for you to be hyper critical of the police right now. There is a freak shooting innocent people. Can you imagine for one minute being a cop who has to approach a vehicle in a roadblock who may be this sniper?
I think drivers in these roadblocks have to be scared to death, particularly if they are in a white van. If I were a driver in that area I would understand more than anyone why the police are treating people this carefully. We don't know what the sniper looks like.
I noticed last night that they were looking at vehicles other than white vans also... That makes me feel a little better. I wish the cops luck... The guy slipped through again, and that is the real tragedy.
These roadblocks are probably the safest place to be. The likelihood of this sniper being in a roadblock, AND being provoked into action (as opposed to waved through) approaches zero.
Hyper-critical?
Listen, there's nothing you can say to convince me that it is okay for cops to drag our citizens out of cars at gunpoint, shove them face-down on the ground and handcuff them simply under the pretext that they happen to be driving a non-descript white van (of which there are thousands and thousands). This just doesn't cut it. This is the United States of America, not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. We are supposed to be better than that.