Comments on: When an apology isn’t enough for me https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 04:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: smc https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2835 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:04:27 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2835 Suppose it was Dorner, and suppose they killed Dorner. Wouldn’t it have been better to take him alive if possible?

I am not law enforcement, and maybe I am totally naive. Though the actions of the first officers (who talked to, and sent on the way, the surfer) suggest otherwise. But in my liberal, knee-jerk, “criminal-loving”, not to mention tree-hugging, opinion – you always give a suspect a chance to surrender if at all possible. (It was already PROVEN possible in this situation.) Certainly blazing away at all comers is no way for the police to behave even when freaked out. Good officer training is supposed to protect us from freaked out police officers doing the wrong thing in a frightening situation. That is the point of it after all.

The more I learn about this, the more dismayed I become, not the reverse. That in itself is dismaying…

]]> By: Anita https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2834 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:02:44 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2834 Outrageous…

]]> By: smc https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2832 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:09:01 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2832 Chilling.

]]> By: Ed Ward https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2822 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:39:13 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2822 Tragically, LAPD chiefs should get remedial training in adverbs.

]]> By: avogadro https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2781 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:11:44 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2781 Like that will ever happen. 100 shots and they didn’t kill either innocent victim? Assuming they don’t get fired, they should get mandatory remedial handgun training (and be relieved of their weapons until it’s completed and they pass a firing line test).

]]> By: gjk https://sorrywatch.com/when-an-apology-isnt-enough-for-me/#comment-2776 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:18:57 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1053#comment-2776 The best apology would be to cashier all the trigger-happy officers. They’ve proven themselves to be too nervous or cowardly to safely carry a firearm.

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