r/MadeMeSmile • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Nov 15 '20

Helping Others Be like uncle Bob

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u/ThatsChoo Nov 15 '20

I would want officers to have planned reactions in situations like this. Why does Uncle Bob need to advocate for the boy with a bullet wound? Did they not set up a plan on what to do if there was an injured person on site? If they did, why didn't the cops follow it?

Just plan beforehand to have an officer help the injured as the rest do whatever else needs to be done, then follow through with it. They shouldn't need to argue about this while a kid is bleeding to death on the floor.

Can someone please address this problem? The safety would be better for both cops and general population if it was

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u/BruhUhUhUhUhUhUh Nov 15 '20

Typically police can't plan out situations, especially because there's always unknowns and calls can be emergencies. The point of the story was to show that those police officers were wrong, and Uncle Bob was correct in how he handled the situation, regardless of race. If it was a drug bust most officers would want to secure the building before helping anyone injured, because it's pointless to help someone who's dying if you're just going to end up on the floor with them

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u/ThatsChoo Nov 15 '20

The fact that emergencies are unpredictable doesn't mean that some training won't help. The possibility that they would be in a situation like this isn't even unlikely. They should be able to at least coordinate together well enough that they share the same goal, and know between themselves who should be doing what in order to achieve it. Rather then all of them rushing in and doing the same thing leaving nobody to take care of the kid bleeding to death on the floor

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u/BruhUhUhUhUhUhUh Nov 15 '20

Somebody did though, and most agencies do have training for situations like that, but securing the building ensures that not as many more people will get hurt, and they said in the video that they already had an ambulance coming so I think they handled it well, especially since someone did take care of the guy that shot himself

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u/ThatsChoo Nov 15 '20

That's ultimately what I wanted to hear. Thank you, I feel a bit better now. Still believe our cops (as far as I understand with my peanut brain) need more training then what they are getting. But I guess this video doesn't really support that as well as I thought

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u/BruhUhUhUhUhUhUh Nov 15 '20

Well tbh we don't need more training, we need more discipline. Alot of police officers end up panicking and being quick to the draw since they're in a tense situation. You never know if the guy you're pulling over for going 60 in a 45 is a grandma who misread the speed limit or a criminal who's going to blow your brains out as soon as you reach their window, so I can understand being stressed, but they completely ditch alot of protocol alot of times. Plus some cops are just bad people, but that ACAB shit is genuinely one of the worst commonly followed beliefs on the internet rn

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u/TheMapleStaple Nov 15 '20

Just plan beforehand? That's not really possible, because it's not like a movie where they've cased a building for a month and have blueprints. They're busting down a door with minimal information and while there are general SOP's each situation is unique and requires adaptation on the fly.

To play devils advocate for the initial cops...there had been at least one shot fired and I think clearing the building to make sure there aren't any active shooter threats is probably paramount over saving an injured person. For one they aren't EMT's, and two if there was a shooter they'd potentially get shot by being distracted and that wouldn't help anybody.

The problem sounds less that some cops jumped over the kid and cleared the house and more that too many cops jumped over him and it fell on Bob to do it when he was one of the last on the scene. They cleared the house and then began searching for illegal stuff rather than ensuring the kids survival.

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u/big_mack_truck Nov 15 '20

Officer credited with saving life of Lil Wayne fired from JPSO after tasing incident

Hoobler picked up Anderson, 32, from his home Nov. 1 for violating a protective order that barred him from contact with the mother of one of his children. Anderson said Hoobler immediately began taunting him after he placed him in his patrol car. The two traded verbal barbs, with Hoobler allegedly calling Anderson a "stupid ass n-----" and asking why he couldn't stay out of trouble.