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Originally Posted by Shawnski
Correct me if I am wrong, but where did I say anything about the cops or their involvement?
But now that you bring it up, there have been several reports that many of the Capitol Police were not being paid as they were part of the current shut down.
Now, if they are not being paid, they shouldn't have been there as they were not legally on duty. If they were not legally on duty, and they shot this woman, whoa..... That can of worms could get ugly.
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I don't think there's legally or not legally on duty based on pay. These might have been volunteer officers or they agreed to work in lieu of.
We've seen police volunteer to work without pay in other cities in jurisdictions legally. I believe as long as they are in uniform and signed into a shift that's all that matters, no whether they're being paid or not
As to the top part, I don't think I meant to call you out specifically. But there's this misnomer out there that the police should have reacted based on what the woman looked like or that there was a baby in the car, and they can't really do it mostly because the primary responsibility is prevention of a much worse incident.
We've seen a pretty angelic looking teen in the Boston Bombing, we've seen young kids carrying out terrorist attacks. Even during the Vietnam war the use of babies or mock babies was used against American troops because it would add indecision to your reaction time.
At the end of the day the police and especially the ones involved in governments security is to stop something from happening no matter what the situation, then investigate afterwords.
Its the world we live in.
Again I didn't have the intention of calling you out specifically you bought up a point that I think is important to the discussion.