Cops aren't scared. This is exactly what they signed up to do.

I was watching TYT's coverage of the Stephon Clark murder. Cenk kept hammering on about how cops do these things because they're trained to be cowards. Maybe that's true to some degree.

The reality is that using a gun is likely why they signed up in first place. You want to be the hero who stops the bad guys.

When you realize that your job is mostly mundane, boring work, and there aren't many real bad guys to shoot, you have to create a situation where you can justify shooting someone for something. Anything.

That's the pinnacle of your job. You've fulfilled that vision you had of being a cop when you were a child. You've stopped the bad guy with your gun.

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