It appears that officer is not talking to a mob, but to dozens of calm people. Different situation. If people are already screaming and shouting, or worse, brea

It appears that officer is not talking to a mob, but to dozens of calm people. Different situation. If people are already screaming and shouting, or worse, breaking things, and there are hundreds of them, that wont work. >Imagine if the police were trained to remain passive even when struck. Tell me how much it would cost to train a police force to that level of self control, and to be able identify, in a split second, if the person is attempting to do serious harm to you or is just blowing off steam. Once a person is close enough, there are plenty of blind spots to pull a knife out of. >the crowd would turn on the violent protesters and protect the cops Crowd psychology overrides individual identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence