One thing I’m finding incredibly disturbing is how many people on this hellsite are replying to videos with comments that basically imply it’s a prohibitively unrealistic goal to expect police officers to act with care and responsibility, or de-escalate situations.

I’m a nurse. If I was disciplined for fucking up badly enough that someone was recorded bleeding from their skull, and me and my colleagues were recorded *walking past him*, and then dozens of my colleagues took action protesting the discplinary measures?

It’d be a SCANDAL.

We are expected to act with due care and responsibility. We are expected to think about the potential consequences of every intervention we perform. We are expected to do our utmost to avoid physical altercations with anybody and use all de-escalation strategies at our disposal.

We don’t get guns. We don’t have union officials coming out to smear as “no angel” anybody our professional negligence harms. We aren’t always given the benefit of the doubt by the public when something goes wrong.

We get HELD. TO. OUR. PROFESSIONAL. STANDARDS.

Why should the threshold for being the authorised agent of state power be any lower than that?