You're not a nuisance lol I'm just dogshit at expressing myself on the fly.
I don't personally care if someone goes their whole life never acknowledging that police occasionally
do protect and serve, but you were linking two police incidents in order to make a broader point that I think only makes sense if you purposely ignore policing on the whole. A lot of it isn't good or bad, just uneventful. But one could come away from such a point assuming these incidents are the norm rather than anomalous.
2. I'm still not sure that kind of nuance is necessary to make the point i was trying to make, which was at its core a cultural critique about pro-police mentality and ideology, e.g. "These specific cases of wildly different behavior among police in disparate circumstances make it difficult for the pro-police crowd to defend the institution"--"but not all police hesitate in active shooter scenarios"--"true, of course, but pro-police rhetoric still needs to find a defense for this specific instance of hesitation."
But that's the thing, you can't understand the pro-police culture's continued support of the institution if you only view said institution through the lens you're using. That crowd will point to the overall picture in the face of your examples. It's kinda like how rightoids complain about immigration and focus on the horror stories, when the overall picture is more positive, or at least much more uneventful.
That said, I'm not even sure how true it is that pro-police people are going out of their way to defend the response to the shooting. Again, anecdotal, but I heard a clip of the leader of America First attacking the cops for not responding.
There was a GOP politician who limpwristedly defended them and got annihilated online.
Edit: oops last word? Well, I'm actually mostly in agreement with people who criticise US policing, but I just think critiques become weaker when they're designed only to effectively preach to a choir. This is why #DefundThePolice was shit rhetoric, most people think it sounds deranged and by the time you try to explain that it actually just means changing how the funds are used, you've already lost them.