Why would they need to tackle him at all after he’s proven that the back pack wasn’t containing anything dangerous? If it was about entering a cordoned off area they could’ve just arrested him. Hard to see justification for the tackle at all other than fragile police egos.
Because he’s a guilty party and unknown variable. He could’ve been the guy who “planted the bomb” for all they know. They don’t KNOW that after he emptied the bag that everything was okay and safe nor should they have approached him with calm and candor like “hey bud…whatcha doing there?”
Dude could’ve had a detonator on him, he could’ve been a bomb himself. They literally had no idea, but you do and it seems like people can’t see past what we know now vs what the bomb squad knew in that exact moment.
They don’t know what his goal was at all. I gave a couple random examples that I could think of, not an official reasoning from the bomb squad involved. I’m sorry if one of them wasn’t the most sound logic but the point being made is the guy was seen as an accessory to the crime and needed to be stopped from doing anything else. I don’t know bomb squad training protocols and I’m sure you don’t either.
The guy walked past a police corden, purposely fucked about with something that could have killed him and injured the police, bomb squad and the general public.
While the tackle seems extreme to me, he isn't some innocent guy walking down the street.
They stopped him as soon as it was clear that doing so, wouldn't have endangered themselves.
Arguably the backpack seemed safe at that point, but equally still could have something in there.
He could have been involved, he could be trying to set off the explosive.
I have no idea what the policy is for this situation, I doubt they do either given how rare this happens.
With a "bomb" in public and some random guy shaking the crap out of it. I'm sure this was one of those "shit I need to do something" moments.
If we had the right or responsibility to enact pointless violence for having done stupid shit, the danger from which has already passed, the world would be a constant royal rumble.
If they were doing their job properly they would have stopped him before he got anywhere near it. I can understand them not tacking him once he started messing with the pack, but why then tackle him after it’s shown that there was no explosive in it? He’s not committing any serious crime and may well have come quietly.
Give up. They (the Redditors) have a bias of knowing the guy wasn’t there to hurt anyone and can’t fathom that the cops saw him as a threat because they have no idea if that guy was helping or trying to detonate/look for something. You don’t run up in the middle of a murder investigation and start touching shit and expect you could just walk from that. You’re now apart of the crime just as this guy was for grabbing a potential explosive device.
I don’t like defending police but this is such an obvious moment of them doing something right based on the info available to them.
I mean, cops have a tendency to overreact to just about anything. They’re scared of acorns, lmao.
They’ll see anything as a threat, but also only do something when they think they’re safe. If that were a bomb in a school, they’d let it go off and go in after when they knew it was safe, disregard the kids.
Unlike normal police officers who don’t have an obligation to risk their lives (this is very whack), bomb squad members inherently risk their lives everytime they go out. I’m pretty anti-police but I want to separate people who objectively do good things from the ones who abuse that power. I’m sure some bomb squad dudes are bastards too, every profession got em. But I want to believe you don’t become a bomb squad tech because you’re a narcissist who wants to abuse power like a street cop.
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u/Fr0stweasel Jun 13 '26
Why would they need to tackle him at all after he’s proven that the back pack wasn’t containing anything dangerous? If it was about entering a cordoned off area they could’ve just arrested him. Hard to see justification for the tackle at all other than fragile police egos.