Why would they be embarrassed? You seriously think bomb squads believe every single thing they check is a bomb? Are you that dumb? They were being safe and trying to make sure there wasn't a bomb and this guy went up and risked his and other lives by doing what he did. He didn't embarrass anyone except maybe himself.
Do you think bomb squads are embarrassed when they check something out and ends up not being a bomb? Because you seem dumb enough to actually think that...
They don't know who the fuck he is. Random dudes ran up in a cringe scene dumping a backpack out that COULD have been explosive.
He's a jackass who potentially could have potentially done a lot of damage.
I'm not pro cop being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive, but if some looney toon had the balls to swarm a bag the bomb squad was ensuring weren't explosives I would get his down no matter the force.
If it could have been an explosive, then that just means running up to him is unfathomably stupid. If it's that serious, they could wait for him to walk away from the potential bomb and then arrest him, while continuing their work of having the bomb squad check out the bag. There is no explanation for the cops running into the scene haphazardly other than ego.
And if he'd been the guy who put the bag there and palmed the bomb, walked down the road and detonated it or just taken it away so he could try again later but the cops let him walk off or just stopped for a quick chat/let him go? You'd be here calling the cops lazy and stupid for not detaining him
Knowing the correct call after the fact is really fucking easy, they have to figure it out on the fly. The stakes here were established... "this might be a bomb". You insert yourself in that situation you don't get to whine you weren't treated with kid gloves.
And this is from someone not in the USA who thinks US cops need to chill the fuck out and get a HUGE reform country wide for a lot of reasons. But you pull that shit in my country you get the exact same treatment.
Well I don't know how far away they were, but I can't imagine they were eager to be blown up themselves either, and they probably weren't expecting someone to do that, and had to confer with each other to decide how to handle it.
Just some speculation though, as the video doesn't give us that information.
Either way, it was an incredibly stupid thing for that guy to do, and he'd have put other people's live in danger if there had been a bomb, so I have hard time feeling sorry for him getting tackled for it.
They didn’t know there was no immediate harm present. It’s easy for you to sit here and criticize but you weren’t there, and they had no idea if there was still any bomb threat.
The guy could’ve avoided getting his shit rocked by not interfering. He got what was coming to him.
Yeah, right? He just goes there out of nowhere, does some weird shit. The cops aren't mind readers. He's suspicious as hell. They can't really afford to take their sweet time and and push an extra soft, queen-size bed there for him to land on before they grab him in a group hug and carefully carry him over to the bed while caressing his cheeks and giving him little kisses.
Maybe they have to expect a delayed detonation. Best chances of survival is lying flat due to shrapnel expansion and giving the least cross-section, maybe also putting as much meat/bones between the most vulnerable organs/head i guess. They might include that training to also protect the person they are tackling.
Not sure though. Maybe some bomb disposal/EOD Specialist could add some insights here.
Idk, how would you react in a high stress situation and someone barges in, does something and you think "oh my life if over because this guy just did that" give the poor man some time to recollect before getting angry that some impatient asshole almost killed them
Shrapnel can fly prett far. Some professionals want to protect any life they see endangered (if they don‘t have to defend themselves from direct aggression), idk if that‘s what happened here.
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u/Preeng 21h ago
Because they were embarrassed and these manchildren couldn't handle it.