Those are contradictory orders. Are you telling me that in a situation with people screaming at me I'm supposed to parse what they are saying, decide in what order I ought to comply, while dealing with people that are liable to shoot me if I do the wrong thing?
BULLSHIT. Dominating the room does nothing. If this is a shooter then he will open fire regardless of what the cops are doing. The only thing all five of them screaming does is to give the cops a nice adrenaline rush at the same time it increases the chance of the suspect doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing and subsequently get shot.
In this situation one person giving concise, clear messages is absolutely preferable to five cops shouting at you.
Not to mention that looking through his phone is a blatant violation of his rights. What are they going to do with the info on his phone? Are they going to start calling people to check what they are doing?
"Hi, this is the police. Your friend shot up a school, what are you doing at this time? Not killing anyone I hope"
This kind of behavior from the police is what crates a lot of dangerous situations where innocent people are liable to get hurt. It won't be long before one of these SWAT-ings ends with some poor gamer shot dead because he had a replica chainsaw gun next to him and appeared to be reaching for it.
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Those are contradictory orders. Are you telling me that in a situation with people screaming at me I'm supposed to parse what they are saying, decide in what order I ought to comply, while dealing with people that are liable to shoot me if I do the wrong thing?
BULLSHIT. Dominating the room does nothing. If this is a shooter then he will open fire regardless of what the cops are doing. The only thing all five of them screaming does is to give the cops a nice adrenaline rush at the same time it increases the chance of the suspect doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing and subsequently get shot.
In this situation one person giving concise, clear messages is absolutely preferable to five cops shouting at you.
Not to mention that looking through his phone is a blatant violation of his rights. What are they going to do with the info on his phone? Are they going to start calling people to check what they are doing?
"Hi, this is the police. Your friend shot up a school, what are you doing at this time? Not killing anyone I hope"
This kind of behavior from the police is what crates a lot of dangerous situations where innocent people are liable to get hurt. It won't be long before one of these SWAT-ings ends with some poor gamer shot dead because he had a replica chainsaw gun next to him and appeared to be reaching for it.