I locked up the store I was working at and started walking to my car, it was in a larg shopping center so there was families going into and out of stores, some people window shopping, kids riding their bikes, police telling a guy to get down on the ground with their handguns out and ready.....
Now what struck me odd about this wasn't so much the police pointing a weapon at someone (ok it was my first time seeing something like that so it did strike me pretty odd. What made me feel really wierd was that for most the poeple in the parking lot it was as if nothing was going on, ten feet away from the policemen a family got out of a car and camly went into the pizza place.
Near me was a family and thinking the parents might want to take their kids somewhere a little safer then 50 feet away from Police in what was surely a dangerous situation, I pointed out the danger to them. So what did they do? The went over to where the police were to watch....with their young children.
Now I'm not married and I don't have children but I'd just assume that taking taking your family or even yourself closer to two men with guns pointed at another person, weather they are police or not, is not the smartest thing to do.
And it wasn't just this one family other people were starting to stop and stare some not more the ten feet away.
I don't know, the lack of concern for themselves, their family and the safety of the police officers who were dealing with what was possibly a dangerous person, just bothered me....
(Edited for grammer)
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
That is wierd.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Free entertainment and a lawsuit plus settlement if a cop misses and hits a kid.
Which is a renewable resource.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
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-Trevor
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
Welcome to the new desensitized United States of America.
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
I don't know that that's particularly surprising, but I do agree that the saner response would be to get your kids out of there.
quote:Originally posted by Catseye1979: (Edited for grammer)
It's rude of me, I know, and I'm at least somewhat sorry, but I find this quote vastly amusing.
Edit (after seeing Boris's post):
Nor do I think it's a strictly (or even predominantly) American response. It's just how people react to something that they are morbidly fascinated by, such as, say, a train wreck.
Posted by Catseye1979 (Member # 5560) on :
You should've seen it before the Edit. Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
hehehe
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Seems to me they are reinforcing a valuable trait in twenty-first century America. All aspects of the treatment of suspects and criminals should be invisible to the average upstanding citizen, who has nothing to fear. You probably messed it up for those poor children.
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