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Littlebotweak t1_iu027o2 wrote

It’s a tough one because, yes, the Boulder police were being pricks to this guy. I imagine it was because there were so many of them around they wanted something to do.

But, don’t let that subtract from the fact that the BPD did go into the site of an active shooting. They didn’t all stand outside for an hour and a half harassing people, they went in and an officer did lose his life.

I lived in Boulder for many years and I could give plenty of examples of BPD being feckless and cowardly.

When it mattered on this particular day they did answer the call. They did justify their SWAT team and they did get the shooter alive.

By all means tear them down for their flaws, but at least give them credit for their overarching actions that day.

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NightlyWry t1_iu03jn8 wrote

They saved lives that day, and stomped on a persons legal rights all at the same time. Gnarly world we live in. I grew up right next to that King Soopers and shopped there weekly. Boulder is a safe place and mostly the cops don’t interfere with life. It might be because basically everyone there is white though. Who knows.

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Littlebotweak t1_iu04q4f wrote

You would think that but they get bored and want to shoot people just like any other force and when that happens students get shot.

They’re pricks 99% of the time. But, at least they went in that day.

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BubbaTee t1_iu1666d wrote

> They didn’t all stand outside for an hour and a half harassing people

At least one of them hung around outside harassing this cameraman.

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