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Originally Posted by Cherie

Its not just losing his temper though is it, 3 officers where hurt in the scuffle before hand one with a broken nose, we would all be crying if this guy got up and managed to get a gun off one of the officers and started shooting randomly, it was excessive and he did lose control but it was a heated situation and not one any of us has any experience of being in, if it emerges he has form for this then that is a different story, the whole story is now focussed on the police man and not on the people who were originally fighting in the terminal where it should be, bit of balance from the media would be nice

Police are scrutinized more these days due to so many bad stories we hear of people getting wrongly shot , tazered and other excessive force situations.

So now unfortunately it will dominate how the police officer was in the wrong more than the actual criminal. Cops are trained to remain calm under pressure and they have a responsibility to the public and themselves...and yes they should use force but not go crazy. Having said that ... I'm not sure how I would react to a friend colleague getting their nose broken,but then I'm not a police officer so it's a different thing.

Usually if a criminal lashes out ...they should cuff them instantly,but it sounds like it got too heated and the criminal wouldn't have made it easy.