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Originally Posted by theking
What position would that be? What gives you the impression that there were no rules? No one was playing at anything. One of the members of the watch was a reserve Deputy and two of the members of the watch were retired police officers.
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We should not, under any circumstances, have armed civilians patrolling anything. Neighborhood watch has zero fucking authority to do anything other than call the police. I don't think a reserve deputy is qualified; In my neck of the woods a reserve deputy is someone they call up in an extreme emergency to direct traffic (they did this in my hometown during the propane train fire), and retired cops are the worst - they think they know all, have a limited tolerance for bullshit, and are last kind of person you want on the neighborhood watch.
What you've just told me is exactly the root of the problem here - we had an untrained armed neighborhood watch member who completely went out of his way to break all rules of the neighborhood watch. His job wasn't to pursue and detain; His job was to call the fucking police.
The end result is a seventeen year old kid was killed seventy feet from the front door who's only crime was buying skittles.
You aren't the solution, you are the problem.