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In reply to the discussion: menatime in Norway - police do this with a drunk man on the street. [View all]EEO
(1,620 posts)18. Whoa... Where is the beating? The taser? The gun?
These officers clearly received some type of training our officers do not. So they received training.
Deescalation just isn't the way many American police officers like to handle things. Escalating things to devastating and potentially deadly consequences is more of their thing.
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Diclotican
Oct 2014
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Yup, and they would have said it was because they were afraid for their own safety....
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2014
#3
This is what happens when you have a Police Force that's not part psycho and part nasty.
BlueJazz
Oct 2014
#2
How do you get the english subtitles? I didn't see them. But yeah, It is nice to see cops
diabeticman
Oct 2014
#4
You don't have to sell me. I find your country and a few others to be a far more civilize than
diabeticman
Oct 2014
#12
Wow. No riot gear or anything. Imagine the beating he would have gotten in Los Angeles...
WhoIsNumberNone
Oct 2014
#7
Unfortunately, thanks to the gun industry and the NRA, guns are everywhere in the US
Thor_MN
Oct 2014
#9