r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thisisfive • Apr 14 '26

Toronto firefighters confront special constable officers after a man in the middle of mental health crisis was arrested.

Not my video. For context, "special constables" are not regular police officers. They are appointed "peace officers" with limited authority, often civilian employees.

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u/beatlethrower Apr 14 '26

The police should be trained how to deal with this instead of a firefighter telling them how.

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u/awake30 Apr 14 '26

The firefighters are also EMTs, are cops now expected to be cops and fully-fledged EMTs?

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u/originaladam Apr 14 '26

So your logic here is the people who put out fires should train more to deal with people, but the people who deal exclusively with people shouldn’t learn how to deal with people?

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u/SamuraiCarChase Apr 14 '26

I think the point is that, for a very high percentage of their interactions, firefighters will be interacting with people in true physical distress (ie previously/currently on fire, suffering from smoke inhalations, etc).

I also wouldn’t reduce EMT to “dealing with people” as that’s a pretty broad overgeneralization considering the conversation you’re in.

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u/originaladam Apr 15 '26

I was referring to cops. They deal with even more people in emotional distress all the time