People’s readiness to call the police in the US has always shocked me. They hardly have the best track record, and yet, at the first sight of trouble, the trigger-happy enforcers are called in.
A mother has reportedly called the police after feeling like she had been insulted. Her child, playing in a sand pit, had thrown some of it into the air. Two other mothers approached her to ask her to tell the child to stop.
Some of the sand had blown in the wind and gone into the faces of some other kids. The women, unable to have an adult conversation, were reduced to insults. So, the initial mother with the sand-throwing child called the police.
I have absolutely no idea what she was hoping to achieve, calling armed police to the scene. Why the three of them couldn’t have a civil discussion about their children and come to some sort of agreement is beyond me. Instead, they called in a group of police with fewer qualifications than most barmen to solve the problem.
Police Fire 28 Bullets Into Sand Pit Kids
As a result, the police officers arrived on the scene and shot the two mothers and their kids to death. They then buried them in the sand, hiding any evidence. The official line is that they choked on the sand. The mother of the sand-throwing kid was then arrested and charged with wasting police time.
Actually, the police had to come out to the children’s play park and discipline the three angry women. Accordingly, the three women were told to keep to themselves as the children played. What an embarrassing situation for grown adults to put themselves in.
Calling the police in any situation should always be a last resort. In most cases, the situation will not be understood, and someone will end up being cuffed and detained. Police are no longer a service, and should be seen as a force.
Calling the police to something as menial as a sand-throwing incident with children is utterly bizarre. The parents should be ashamed of themselves.