Police Acting Stupidly?

Train­ing is one thing that police just do not get enough prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence before they are put into a sit­u­a­tion where intel­li­gence and smart think­ing could have pre­vent­ed seri­ous prob­lems.

In a recent pop­u­lar news sto­ry a female Vet­er­an refused to allow the flag of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca to be burned.

The police end­ed up wrestling this brave woman to the ground and hand­cuff­ing her they allowed this because they were not well trained in how to deal with these kinds of sit­u­a­tions.

Mis­take num­ber one.

The police failed to sep­a­rate two oppos­ing groups of peo­ple.

When con­front­ed with an alter­ca­tion you always sep­a­rate the two groups by dis­tance.

Next you deal with the sit­u­a­tion as it devel­ops away from the groups abil­i­ty to cre­ate vio­lence.

When two oppos­ing groups are sep­a­rat­ed it is very dif­fi­cult for the sit­u­a­tion to get out of hand.

Mis­take num­ber two.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

The police in this instance failed to com­mu­ni­cate the sit­u­a­tion prop­er­ly.

The police should have tak­en pos­ses­sion of the flag as evi­dence of a civ­il dis­pute.

This would have pre­vent­ed the flag from being burned and the alter­ca­tion esca­lat­ing into a nation­al press inci­dent.

Prop­er crowd man­age­ment is an essen­tial skill in prop­er police pro­ce­dure how­ev­er these offi­cers clear­ly had no clue.

Watch the Video and you can see clear­ly the mis­takes they made.