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There can be no automatic presumption of a rational response to entirely measured and legitimate and carefully orchestrated police activities. Even otherwise p
by Hoff 17y ago
There can be no automatic presumption of a rational response to entirely measured and legitimate and carefully orchestrated police activities.
Even otherwise peaceful and rational and law-abiding folks that happen to become involved in an altercation with police or that are physically restrained by police can and sometimes will fight with an officer or with a police dog with absolutely everything they're worth, and fight well past the point of personal injury.
There's no automatic presumption of rationality here. There's no reasoning here. Fight or flight is one of the most basic and powerful human instincts. And sufficiently fearful folks can and sometimes do become feral.
This based on over twenty years experience providing emergency medical services on the streets; of working directly with the some of the best-trained police and police dogs, and with the public, and with the aftermath of the occasional collisions among all these folks.