Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
I went to a new restaurant and hated it \u2013 there were too many menu choices and they all sounded so good that I couldn\u2019t decide because I worried there was a better choice.<\/p>\n
Cops have that problem.\u00a0 The deputy sheriff guarding our building wears a Batman Belt giving her the choice of responding to problems with handcuffs, baton, pepper spray, Taser, pistol . . . too late, you\u2019re dead.\u00a0 Took too long to decide because you were worried there was a better choice.<\/p>\n
We should go back to the old way: nightstick and a pistol, forget the rest. \u00a0If you go in the cop car peacefully, we won\u2019t need handcuffs; if not, you\u2019ll either go in the ambulance or the hearse and again, we won\u2019t need handcuffs.\u00a0 Should make the rules of behavior easier for cops and much clearer for People Whose Lives Matter.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m gonna indulge in a rare disagreement with Joe here. \u00a0The less we treat cops like medieval knights and civilians like peasants, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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