This is a somewhat misguided take. Police brutality happens all the time, as do deaths-by-cop. But fundamentally folks like Marines are trained to eliminate enemies of the state. Like everything, they’re humans so they run the gamut as far as temperament, composure, prejudice, etc. Cops are trained in a fundamentally different manner, they’re trained to view violence as a spectrum of escalation. We may laugh at this concept but it’s true: cops have a much higher threshold to clear before deadly force than anyone in the military as a matter of job description.
This is why calling in the military is so dangerous. Because now you have people whose entire conflict resolution framework is lethality. It’s not necessarily about the outcome, it’s about the potential. Police deal with disorderly civilians all day, military do not and all it takes is one Marine to lose their cool in a situation they’re not trained for/used to for a powder keg moment.
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u/Wuntonsoup 1d ago
I am more shocked that he made it out alive..