Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

  1. Police officers aren’t lifeguards. Some may not swim at all. Most aren’t trained for water rescue. If they called for a marine rescue unit that’s all they can do. They tried to dissuade the guy from going in, but he was clearly determined to kill himself. It’s a sad situation, but the officers handled it correctly in my opinion.
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  2.  @kevinsumner1545  Protecting someone isn’t killing yourself. Ever stand in the middle if a highway trying to stop cars? No? They don’t let you do that? Why not?
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  3.  @TChalla007  What was unprofessional? He called for assistance on the radio and maintained visual contact. That’s literally what he’s supposed to (and can) do. Had the FD or other rescue team shown up sooner maybe he wouldn’t have drowned (or maybe he would have.) The point is you have NO clue of what could or can be done in such situations, so sit down and shut up. Realize that there are situations where you have no clue. Be an adult.
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  4.  @kevinsumner1545  Hey… where’d you get the crack you’re smoking? What conflict? No one even knew he was going to kill himself. POs don’t get ANY swimming training, right along rescue. They called it in. You can hear it in the recording. They’re not supposed to go into the water. If one feels he/she is well trained and capable, they may choose to, but guess what… if they end up making things worse they lose their job since they’re not trained for it. Even in the Coast Guard, only trained rescue swimmers enter the water. We otherwise have to pull people out of the water from the boat itself, and we all know how to swim ourselves AND are wearing life jackets. A drowning person will fight you and drown you.
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  5.  @rice15Life  He did call for help, over the radio. Now sit down and shut up. YOU are the coward here.
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  6.  @jonstone9741  Or… and this is crazy… they could have told him not to climb the fence (and he did), not to go into the water (and he did) or to swim back to shore (and he did not). Oh wait… they did all that.
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  7.  @kevinsumner1545  Are you alright? Are you having a stroke?
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  8.  @danielross9057  Do you want a medal for that trolling or are you doing it for a charity?
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  9.  @sootymammal2891  No, not do “something”. That’s how you get two people dead instead of one. You have to know what you’re doing.
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  10.  @icemachine79  They ABSOLUTELY did, and you can actually see them following up on that in the video at 2:09! Ignorance must be such bliss to you!
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  11.  @MrBla342  Wearing a police officer’s uniform means you enforce laws. It doesn’t mean you’re a lifeguard. You can’t expect the fire department to be medical examiners or EMTs to execute search warrants, would you?
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  12.  @TChalla007  Police cars DO NOT carry rope. Also, if they did, and it wasn’t a nylon rope, it would immediately submerge/drown, just like a brick. YOU are the shining example of how stupid an untrained person is when it comes to things like this.
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  13. That’s false. It depends on the situation and level of training/care needed.
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  14.  @crsi8268 Youtube doesn’t allow links.
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  15. The one thing American and Danish conservatives have in common is their disdain for education.
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