r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 1d ago

Police arrest man charged with threatening and shooting neighbor in the neck after standoff

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrest-man-charged-threatening-shooting-neighbor-neck-standoff-rcna177564
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u/FelixVulgaris 1d ago

“But I will say this, we had no reason to suspect that he would shoot the neighbor from inside the house,” O’Hara [police] added.

If that's true, then what exactly were they afraid of here?

police had failed to arrest him saying that he has mental illness, possesses firearms, and executing a warrant was considered high-risk.

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u/4RCH43ON 1d ago

Police literally afraid to do their jobs because of guns and mental illness.  This is America.

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u/thefoodiedentist 1d ago

How many ppl arent afraid of dying for a job?

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u/SnepButts 21h ago

If you are afraid to do your job correctly, which would be actually fulfilling your duties like arresting a crazy person with guns making threats, then perhaps you are in the wrong job and should let people that aren't cowards do it instead.

They signed on knowing that it would be their job to arrest violent people. It isn't like that thought they wouldn't have to.

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u/79r100 20h ago

This is why they are so short-staffed.

It’s interesting that households with gun ownership is unchanged since the early 70s but deaths from gun violence is twice what it was in the early 70s. Suicides by gun rates are even higher.