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Buffalo Police Avoid a Hole In One
04/16/2023
This video posted to the Ring Neighbors app last week shows the urgent, safe, and effective takedown of an individual who, to likely anyone's eye, was experiencing a mental health issue or out of control public drunkness.
The video shows a man intermittently and wildly swinging a golf club at "air adversaries" around him as he wobbles erratically down the street. He also carried a bottle which he periodically places on the ground and picks back up over and over again.
The takedown was clean without any of that "passive-escalation" crap where officers scream something like "drop the weapon fucker or I'll blow you away!" approach that, well, tends to naturally provoke a reaction to deadly ends. We see that a lot in videos, including (mostly) technically "justified shooting" ones.
This is not the only video circulating of BPD officers doing professional clean takedown work but confrontations are fluid and differ from situation to situation. Emotional strength and discipline are always a matter of "holding your breath" to see if that's what actually prevails.
That's why this incident is particularly special. If you actually watch the video, the suspect even crudely arms himself by shattering his bottle just as he is being cornered by police in the covered vestibule of a venue that had patrons huddling nervously off as the incident unfolded just a few shoulder-lengths away
Circulating on the RIng Neighbors App on 4/7. Video is additionally edited for BuffScan posting.
The Ring Neighborhood post commentary suggests that this occurred on Hertel avenue. The poster was rightly commended for his video quality which he attributed to the WHD103Z dome camera system, which is a bit more than the average homeowner would probably install. I assume the OP was somehow connected to the business hosting the camera.
Whether confrontational outcomes are good or bad, I generally avoid weighing in on the merit of police action (or maybe better put, I like to think that I do). To me, whether they are singing praise or condeming actions, people do this as a way to mitigate the power that law enforcement has over them which to me is a weaker stance if there has to be that psychological orientation in the first place. To me, like journalists, cops are just people forced to work in potentially explosive unpredictable circumstances all the time. As such results will vary, but nobody is the devil for it.
That being said, they didn't shoot this guy and my guess is the moment the man shattered that bottle and armed himself, they could-might-have.
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