The more police interactions in the United States that I see over the years, the more convinced I become that American police officers are complete cowards.
By far the most infamous recent example is the Robb Elementary School shooting incident. All the way since the Columbine high school shooting massacre in 1999 the instructions to police forces is that in an active school shooting situation the procedure is to form a team of four officers in body armor who will enter the school as quickly as possible and move towards the sounds of shooting as quickly as possible, ignoring everything else, and take down the shooter or shooters as quickly as possible, to minimize casualties.
However, while this sounds all well and good, there's a huge flaw in this tactic: It requires actual courage from police officers. The tactic doesn't work when the police officers are fucking cowards.
Which, like pretty much all police forces in the United States, the police of Uvalde, Texas, where Robb Elementary is, were in droves. So the officers twiddled their thumbs in the hallway of the school for a whopping 70 minutes(!!!) before gaining the courage of entering the classroom where the shooter was.
They were literally too scared for their own safety to enter the classroom, even though there was an active shooter there, killing children. The amount of cowardice was just astonishing. They cared more about their own safety than the safety of schoolchildren. The mother of one of the students had so much more courage than an army of body-armored police officers that she alone was able to save a dozen of them, all by herself. While the police officers did absolutely nothing. That's how cowards the were. (And no, this is not some kind of wild interpretation, ignoring some aggravating circumstances or something that caused them to wait that long. Literally and quite explicitly the reason why they just stood there for 70 minutes was because of "officer safety" and because they were too scared to enter the classroom.)
While this is, perhaps, the most egregious notorious example in recent history, it's by far not the only one. There are plenty of other examples which, while perhaps significantly more minor, nevertheless still show how cowards they are.
For example, recently the Los Angeles police got a call and they rushed to the scene. You can see from the footage how seven police officers confront the suspect. Six of the officers are pointing their firearms to the guy from a distance of 10-15 meters, while one of them barks orders at him. They have a standoff like this for like a minute or so before they dare to approach the guy.
Was this, like, some kind of heavily armed hardened criminal, extremely dangerous convict, who escaped from a high-security prison and who was convicted of mass murder, and who was just running from a shooting spree where he killed ten cops and twenty civilians? Was he threatening the police officers with some automatic assault weapon?
Nope. It was an elderly (about 70 or 80 years old) homeless man, slowly strolling along the street with a shopping cart, and the police was called because allegedly he had hit some car with a baseball bat. And what was he doing in that video clip? Asking the police why he was being arrested. That's it.
Apparently the Los Angeles police was so scared shitless of an 80-year-old homeless man who allegedly had hit something with a baseball bat that they felt the need to have six officers point their firearms at his back from 10-15 meters distance, apparently because they were too scared to approach him and just ask him questions.
In any sane country there would have been just a couple of officers who would have approached him and investigated what had happened. In the United States, however, you get an army of police officers drawing their guns at you from behind because they are too scared of a baseball bat that you might perhaps have, and even though you are an 80-year-old homeless guy.
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