Interesting. Perhaps that's how it comes across on this side of the Atlantic. I've heard so many times American police or forces say something like "We had to

Interesting. Perhaps that's how it comes across on this side of the Atlantic. I've heard so many times American police or forces say something like "We had to open fire when they failed to cooperate". In fact I heard that so many times on TV as kid in the 1970s and 1980s that I considered "capitulate" as a drop-in replacement for "cooperate". Only later did I revise the meaning as something that happens between parties on an equal power footing. I guess that's what happens when people misuse words as a euphemistic way to soften intentions and behaviours - like "collateral damage" and so on, and then that culture gets exported through popular media.