You forgot the purple.
Maybe he didn't.
You forgot the purple.
I thought I read an account of this a couple of years back. In the other account, there were more details like the officer and the attacker were struggling for the officers gun when the bystander shot the attacker.
If this is not the same story, it has an uncanny similarity. Officer pulls person over for breaking into a funeral procession, gets into an altercation and a bystander comes to the officers aide after coming out of a 7/11. The bystander fires into the torso without effect, steps closer and puts a round behind the attackers ear.
Going back to the OT, I would probably do what pretty much every LEO tells me on here and that is be a "good witness." Why would I help a PO in distress when I shouldn't help a random citizen in distress?
911 is just right around the corner. I'll just wait for them if it isn't someone close to me being harmed. amirite?
I doubt you'd feel that way if it was someone you cared about was was being beaten or killed & someone who could've saved them just stood there & watched so he'd be a "good witness."
Duty and Honor are tough Mistresses...I would like to think that I would help, within my means. But it is very hard to say without being in the situation.
It would take a truly disgusting POS to do that. To answer the question: I would be morally and ethically obligated to assist someone in danger, badge or not.Ask Dave Moore about citizen help as he lay in the yard dying. Homeowner standing there watching him though a window as he died...alone in the snow. It was a fellow officer blocks away that was the first to show up to help. I can count on my brothers/sisters when the SHTF and that is it. We welcome the outside help if given but we know it is not likely. Every day we have officers fighting with resisters and either the passerby's will only watch or root the suspect on. More people than want to admit actually like seeing us struggle.
I disagree. Pretty strongly, as a matter of fact. And I am not speaking of one individual. If it was one individual there would be no problem.
Our only hope for humanity is when good people value innocent life enough to defend it from the evil that would do it harm.