Apparently the sense of safety and entitlement among these upper middle class women is such that they assume that the police are there to protect them, even from the police themselves. That's not really what police are for; indeed, Federal courts and even the Supreme Court have been clear that the police have no duty to protect you.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.... [this pertained to] a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.For hours on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica Gonzales tried to get the Castle Rock police to find and arrest her estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, who was under a court order to stay 100 yards away from the house. He had taken the children, ages 7, 9 and 10, as they played outside, and he later called his wife to tell her that he had the girls at an amusement park in Denver.Ms. Gonzales conveyed the information to the police, but they failed to act before Mr. Gonzales arrived at the police station hours later, firing a gun, with the bodies of the girls in the back of his truck. The police killed him at the scene.
That's what the police are for: they exist to kill or imprison at the convenience and for the purposes of the state. The bullets are always real.
It's strange that these protesters had come to the conclusion that the police are a threat, but never realized that the police are meant to be a threat to them as well.
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So many contradictory ideas simultaneously. We need to defund them because they’re dangerous, etc. But why would they have real bullets? So many people want to be insulated from the consequences of poor decision making.
Larry
"That's what the police are for: they exist to kill or imprison at the convenience and for the purposes of the state. The bullets are always real."--Exactly: to maintain law and order by taking action against people who are violating it. Individual cops are often simultaneously trying to protect individual citizens, which is only natural, but they have to do it within the limits of what their jobs make possible, or by jumping the fence and acting outside their jobs, as they sometimes must in order to live with themselves, like all of us.
I heard that phrase while watching the numerous video clips of this incident, and I remember my immediate thought was, "What did you think they had....snap caps?!"
This, for any honestly thinking person, should have been a bright, shining light into the mental bubble of the agitators. They do not approach with the situational awareness that the area is inherently, and in most cases, has the absolute certainty of devolving into violence up to and including gun fire. No, they apparently think Shakespeare really said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely cos-players." So they LARP their way to demonstrations (aka riots) happily pretending they are saving the world from eeeeeevil. Naturally, since they are pretending, they assume (you know what they say about that) everyone else is, too. And, to be honest, there really ARE a whole lot of people pretending right along with them, so it's understandable how easy it might be to get swept up in the moment and believe that the whole protest (riot) is just pretend. And, therefore, if it's all just pretend, the gun, obviously, is either empty (paging Mr. Baldwin) or contains non-lethal bullets. Only problem with that is so-called non-lethal bullets can and do kill in rare documented instances.
With all of that in mind, along comes Reality in the form of a man who is suddenly faced with the possibility of either being ran over and killed by a 2 ton vehicle or defending himself - with the Real weapon loaded with the Real bullets that Real law enforcement carry.
This explains the incredulity in the phrase, "Why did you have real bullets?!"
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