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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
A great many people simply disagree that waiting out a murderer with a weapon in his hand for even more hours into the darkness of the night and possibly into the next day or beyond was the proper thing to do. At some point when negotiations fail, action has to be taken to end a standoff. It is impractical to have dozens of police officers and equipment standing around on alert for a suspect to hopefully eventually fall asleep. What if it lasted 24 hours or more and this was occuring next to your home or place of business instead of at the edge of a cliff soemwhere? Depending on where the incident is occuring, such a stand off is also potentially dangerous to the community, neighbors and disruptive of the community.
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And so there it is. One human life and all of our high & mighty bullshit about our fantastic American "justice" system and our so-called "rights" goes right out the window when time-management and the bottom line are more important.
'It's not practical'. Wow. Who made
that call? I'd love to hear what tragic event was unfolding at the same time that required them to move that particular set of equipment and group of police so quickly that they just decided to cut their losses and get it over with.
There was no neighborhood or convenience store in jeopardy there. It was a cliff. I didn't see a lot of pedestrians aimlessly milling about in danger of this guy sprouting wings and coming at them with his sword.