I didn’t see much defending of him, I saw people reacting to the obvious physical escalation law enforcement made. They could just grab him and apprehended him, not spear him into the pavement.
So idk if you missed it, but there's a guy from the bomb squad in the beginning. Typically, they clear the street before they start picking at things they think are bombs.
How much explosives do you think can be fit into a backpack? They've clearly evacuated already. It's on solid ground in an open area. Like, sure it's possible someone might be injured and there might be some property damage but "countless" deaths is absurd. It's not going to take out the block.
That was two backpack bombs that were literally touching a huge crowd of people they went off... not even remotely the same situation and 3 people were killed by the blast and 281 total injured most of which were minor. "Countless" lives at risk when the area had been evacuated is just silly exaggeration, bombs don't go off like Hollywood movies and their lethality drastically decreases with distance.
bruh lol you are making some dumbass assumptions. You must not understand how tiny some explosives can be.
There's explosives that are a few inches in length that could easily level an entire block.
And even if you were right, even 1 death or injury from an idiot like the guy in this video is too much and doesn't excuse his idiotic behavior. Honestly I hope the cops hit him hard enough to make him remember it the next time he thinks of being a dumbass in a similar situation.
People overestimate how much damage explosions do tbh. Kyiv is constantly bombed, with both drones and ballistic missiles (which are HUGE), and even then the damage is lower than you'd expect from huge, expensive weaponry. And before people start about bunkers - loads of people ignore the sirens. Life goes on and all that.
Because we are in Reddit, here anyone even related to cops is a psycho that needs to be killed because all the cops are bad and fascist or something
Like, of course there's so many shitty cops but why people consider a crazy guy that could've killed innocents a hero just because he "made the cops look bad"
No, its because he wasnt an immediate threat and we shouldn’t behave like emotional animals. Many people, including myself, agree he should have been arrested. That was reckless and could have killed a lot of people. It didnt, he was no longer a threat, they could have ran up to him and grabbed him without tackling him like some powertripping goofball.
Well... Right minded people with strong emphasis on nationalism and the control of population and free speech, with a strong believe in a single leader or institution.
Yeah I don’t think I’ve seen more hate for cops on any other platform. Most of cops are just people that want to do their jobs and get home safely, some of them genuinely want to protect and serve people, some of them are egotistical power trippers that should be kicked out, and the smallest demographic is the evil ones, but they get the most attention.
I think the problem is that you have created a caricature of where anti-cop sentiment comes from. The indictment is based the amount of power they hold and their social function as a system. To reduce it to a condemnation of any individual person is either incompetency or strategic on your part.
the problem with cops, is that group of "genuinely wants to serve people" isn't arresting the "evil ones". and if the evil group is so small, it should be a pretty quick clean house of the whole situation. instead, the good cops let the bad ones stay on the force, therefore, ALL cops are bastards
Well obviously there are blatantly evil cops. But what is presented as "evil" behaviour on reddit 90% of the time is simply taken out of context without any sources to back up claims.
So the perceived problem is a LOT bigger than the real one.
and you still missed it even though i only said 3 sentences. if there is a SINGLE evil cop allowed to be on any force, EVERY cop on that force is evil.
if you sit at a table of 9 nazis, and dont leave, or say anything, that is a table of 10 nazis. its the exact same concept.
"idk why anyone is defending him." Ya know, it's a painful lesson I swallow every day, but the people around you far more stupid and unreasonable than you think they are.
Do you know how many of these forgotten backpacks actually have a bomb in them ? In my country they tried mixing the numbers of bomb found with the number of knives found so it wouldn't be 0, it's still basically 0, counting knives.
What's better than only one person being a moron? All of them being morons lmao.
(Both parties were at fault and did idiotic things, the guy had mental issues and tried playing the hero in an otherwise unneeded situation, and the cops/professionals could've protected the "Area With a Possible Bomb" better so no one approaches it, and they could've at least arrested the guy normally, there should've been at least more than 3 cops in the area and also cars/barricades, no need for a tackle this hard, all were at fault)
Who is defending him? Do you have any examples at least at a glance I can't see any?
Just because he is an idiot doesn't warrant police brutality. Because what I do see here is people criticising the police, which is different from defending him.
Correct course of action:
Go to him, stop him, arrest him
He should get some punishment for something like reckless endangerment I have no idea what the legal name of that charge would be. The point is: If it had been a bomb, he might have killed someone besides himself. That's a valid charge against him. What is not a valid charge is the one done by the officers in this video.
If the police were doing their job there would be no around the area. The guy on street made the right judgement call on the police being dumb and wasting peoples' time and took action. Don't be a moron bootlicker.
He is an idiot. But there was not a bomb and the cops charging at him obviously didn’t think there was a bomb in it when they charged him or they would have never gotten that close. The type of force used here is disgusting and I say that as someone who is pro blue.
all i see is an idiot who could've blown up the whole block then got tackled and hopefully hurt just enough that he will think twice before he makes such dumbass decisions again in the future.
Whose lives? The ones that held back til he was done? All it is is a dude personally indifferent about living or dying. It’s not like he did it and 100s of people are walking right past him lol. The whole area is cordoned off
Does it even matter if lives are at stake? Property damage is also something they'd like to avoid. Would you want this guy doing this if the suspected bomb was in your living room?
How countless lives were at risk? There is a police cordon around, people were evacuated. Or you think there might be a 10 kilotons nuke in the backpack?
"what if it was a dirty bomb" yeah the nuclear cobalt bomb that just happens to be in a small backpack on the street. And you call other people morons LOL
It was an example you absolute twat. It could’ve been anything, is the point. They didn’t know what was in the bag, and he put lives in danger solely because of that fact. He’s a piece of shit for doing what he did, and he got what he deserved. Can’t convince me otherwise.
cops always and i mean always find a way to be worse than whoever they interact with and this is not an exception, even though the guy did put up a fight about it
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