Three police ( at least, going on the report in ‘Adelaide Now’ ) and one boy with a couple of kitchen knives – end result? One dead boy.
And the assistant police commissioner has said “They’ve ultimately had no choice”
Three police, heavily (and heavy is the word – have you seen the guns they carry? ) armed, heavily trained ( oh, best training in the world, we’re t0ld), in the ‘best’ police force in the world and they can’t think of any other way to subdue an irate teenager than kill him.
A rope would have tripped him up. A pole would have tripped him up. A blanket would have smothered him. A sheet would have blanketed the knives and blinded and smothered him. A net would have brought him down. A bright light would have blinded him. A loud enough noise would have stopped him, even, or it would stop me. (Just a bit of rap or heavy metal would turn me around).
How many of these ‘sophisticated’ ploys and toys did the police have to hand, have training in, attempt to obtain and deploy?
The answer is obvious.
After all this money. After all these years of ‘training’.
What can you say? You can only live in fear of your life….
They chase after you for a traffic offence they’re liable to kill you (or bystanders), they try to arrest you in a shopping mall and… that same.
It looks right there on the surface like this shouldn’t happen. Right there, right now, clearly obvious. And by that – ‘the surface’ – I mean when we instinctively think about the situation and ourselves, ordinary people.
But what have we got here? Ordinary people? No. We’ve got ‘highly trained’ police. We’ve got people specifically trained for this job. People whose ability is lauded to the heavens whenever..
Considering that makes us rethink it all. Yes. They’ve been trained.
So are we to understand that the instruction in the police academy is that “… if three officers find themselves chasing a boy armed with knives they have no option but to kill him…” ?
Is that it? That’s the culmination of their training? That’s as far as they’ve got? That’s the best they can do?
That’s the training for that situation?
Remember: And the assistant police commissioner has said “They’ve ultimately had no choice”
Well I could use a well paid job. I can train them to do better than that… as I’m sure thousands of us could…..
But meanwhile a boy lies dead and no one, from police commissioner to prime minister effectively gives a damn about it but instead simply mouth transparent untruths such as:
“They’ve ultimately had no choice”
Australia’s progressed a great deal since the days of convict colony, hasn’t it? More modern, more powerful guns, and precisely the same attitude.