• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is what pisses me off the most. 376, and you can’t storm the room? 376? And you refuse to trade one for any of those children who needed protecting? These are supposedly the hard calculations they have to make and they all unilaterally chose themselves? Enforcers will always be useless to anybody but the property owners. They aren’t actually here to protect anybody. They should have made the call, and traded 20 of themselves so those kids didn’t have to die. Thats the hard call we expect these “hard asses” to make.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I can’t remember the study but basically the bystander effect is a thing. The more people there are in a group, the more likely it is that no one will do anything because everyone will assume that someone else will do something.

      This isn’t to excuse officers because they are specifically trained that they are that someone. The fact that they were held back from entering is willful, malicious, and negligent.

      The fact that the officers actually complied instead of disobeying orders especially when seconds turned to minutes, is cowardice.

      And a reminder that I believe the police chief and mayor of the town was reelected by the town.

    • halyk.the.red
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      5 months ago

      They analyzed the trolley problem, they chose to sacrifice the few for the many.