He's just a fuckin kid man give him some slack.
He's not a kid, he's a 20-year-old man. Who just (allegedly) committed murder. It's one thing to have a felony on your record; it's quite another to have a first-degree murder conviction and a long jail sentence.
Give him some slack? I wasn't condemning him at all. I'm not saying he "deserves to rot in hell" or anything -- I do believe that people who have done horrible things can heal, grow, and change. But deciding to stab someone was a decision that will end up destroying most of his options in life. I stand by my "really fucking dumb" comment unless he was genuinely indifferent to getting caught -- because he's 20 years old, wanted for murder, and decided to go shopping at Staples. Any reasonable adolescent (and many children) could tell you that a highly-publicised, wanted murderer might get caught by the police if he shows his face in a public place.
the cops are a bunch of pussies.
Half of what you're talking about is called being a law enforcement officer in an advanced civilized society; you can't just run in and start beating people willy-nilly with your baton because it would work to fix the immediate problem (to break up the fight, disperse the crowd, arrest the suspected murderer, whatever).
The other half is about protecting themselves in some legitimately dangerous situations. They are people with lives and families and who don't want to get injured or killed on the job. That's where they're coming from. I don't necessarily agree with all of their overprotective/overaggressive measures in certain cases, but I think it's important to view it from an officer's perspective. I think the majority of officers out there are professional, decent, good people who try to treat people fairly.
Unlike the Burlington PD who couldn't take six cops and bring in a mental ill man Ralph "Phil" Grenon's in alive. So I guess the williston coppers are better.
Williston PD performed one high-profile arrest very well, so they're better than a different, larger department's worst event in years? (BTW, Burlington PD arrests many, many times more people every single day, week, or year than Williston PD does, virtually always without any complaints or allegations of wrongdoing. What I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure your comparison makes much sense.)