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Nuvendil on 08 July 2016
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Normchacho said:
pokoko said:

You seem to be implying that what one cop knows, they all know, even when they're scrambling around during a manhunt.  I don't think it works like that.

I kind of agree, though.  The police need to try less hard and not step on any toes.  More people might die, sure, but they're going to need to be less aggressive in this age of social media.  Be more polite, make double sure of everything before they act.  This guy here just won the lottery and it's going to keep happening.  Catching criminals is just going to have to take a backseat to being media safe.  I think that's going to be the future.

Are fucking serious? Are you seriously suggesting that this was an issue of hurting someones feelings or stepping on someones toes? I'm actually stunned. Stunned that we have a situation where the police posted a picture of a man calling him a suspect in the shooting of police officers to the public before checking with the officers in the field to see if he could be accounted for, and people are acting like they were just being impolite.

They implicated that an innocent man was involved in a very serious crime without taking the literal minutes it would have taken to call out over the radio to ask if any of the officers had seen or could account for a man matching his description.

Also, remember that they clearly called him a suspect. Which means that they directly stated that they believed he may have been involved in the crime.

I don't think anyone is saying it wasn't an error, but it is an understandable one considering all the pandemonium that followed this.  They posted an image asking for information.  Many - including you - are acting like they kicked his door down, blew out his kneecaps, and dragged him off to slap him around with a phone book for six hours.  In the context of an otherwise flawless manhunt that was successful very quickly and admirable conduct under fire, it's not that huge a deal and people aren't even giving them a chance to get everything in order and potentially apologize to the guy.  It's like people were waiting for cops to screw up and make wrong arrests, profile dozens of people, and use excessive force but this picture incident is all they got and they'really gonna milk it for all its worth.  Sorry, just calling it as I see it.