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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
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And thank you for getting it so wrong, so I can give a perfect counter-example. (It's kinda funny that you didn't even read the article :P )
This guy was a literal crazy person running around stabbing people in the city center. The Finnish police caught him alive. Yes they used a gun, they shot him,
but they didn't kill him. They didn't put five bullets at center mass, they shot once, in the leg.
Again, funny how that goes. In one place the emphasis is on the police not dying. In another the emphasis is on the police
avoiding killing anyone, even a crazy dangerous POC, even when it might be justified.
This is BTW one of the best known cases in Finnish recent history, as the whole thing was huge at the time. The picture below also won the extremely prestigious "news picture of the year" award in Finland.
This quote is from the awarding committee:
"The winning picture condenses the years most important news event directly and without aestheticization. The picture is peaceful and speaks of how the police work in an unusual situation."
The person shot was BTW a muslim refugee. It's one of the main reasons why this became huge news. And I would agree with the awarding committee. That picture says a hell of a lot about the Finnish police.
The cop in the picture looks more like a father-figure taking care of someone than a cop keeping an eye on crazed presumed terrorist. The Finnish police force is far from perfect, but in that moment it was really easy to be proud of what we have. It was just phenomenal work. They were on the scene really fast and brought the stabber down really quickly, without killing him. One well-placed shot, nothing more.
If our police can be like this, why can't yours?