Annotated 45-13
Well, we needed to write something to explain how Shanna could gun a guy down in the street and not at least get questioned about it. We also needed to establish there was some growing police interest in Hurricane’s illegal activities…but not so much interest that the group got sidelined before Shanna’s last confrontation with Carol.
We didn’t name this investigator, but we did say that his “shields” speech was a distillation of the belief that carries him into work every day. That’s a striking contrast with Ardaic on the last page, especially so since police culture is now so…controversial (to put it mildly). More on this tomorrow.
FB: Reeling from the deaths they’ve witnessed and (in at least one case) caused, Shanna’s friends get a short speech about the meaning of a shield-shaped police badge to those who truly serve and protect. And this gang of nerds find themselves surprisingly moved by their episode of viewing the “agents of shield.”
Not shown: The investigator spins his chair around to reveal a computer screen. He cracks his fingers, puts on his headset, and gets ready to game. Ardaic’s battleground queue just popped. He’s real excited to see this new “Gnometown” map.
Now that would have been a nice twist.
Not going to lie, Lia (and the others) should feel bad about those officers they sent to face JJ. I wouldn’t say they were disposed of cruelly, but those cops were sent after an extraordinarily dangerous (almost superhuman) maniac believing he was just an ordinarily criminal. And again, the police officers weren’t told JJ wasn’t dangerous, but they definitely could have used a heads up.
I feel like it’s implied that when they called 911, that they indicated they were being threatened by someone armed and dangerous.
And yes, today’s POs are not necessarily as noble and dutiful as Sepia World’s. The latest “Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6” motto they have taken on is a fair distance from feeling that their duty is “to serve and protect.” It’s a hard thing to face, having grown up in a family who believed heavily in the boys in blue.
I’m confused – I thought making broad, specious claims about the behaviors and worthiness of an entire category of human beings was something we *don’t* do.
“Specious” is up for debate there.
But if you have a magic hat that lets me know which “good guy with a gun” is actually a good guy with a gun and which is a power tripping weirdo with a short fuse and a gun, I’ll gladly wear it and no longer need to assume all “good guys with guns” I don’t know are the dangerous sort for my own safety.
Lemme make sure I’m tracking. It’s ok to make broad claims about the behaviors and worthiness of an entire category of human beings, so long as they’re not specious?
Feel free to be as fantasyland as you like about what’s required for you to feel safe. My concern is around making claims about police officers categorically.
“Cop” is a job, not a “category of human being.” Hope this helps
Not really, no.
I’m pretty sure they told the police what they knew: That JJ was an assassin for hire, had already killed on of theirs and was out to kill them all. I would say there should be an internal review of the incident which concludes that next time someone makes a plausible case that something like this is going on, complete with video evidence, they should show up with a lot more than two people …
Police had there weapons ready, they new he was a threat and JJ was boxed in a small room with no exit or anywhere to hide. If anything, JJ walking away from a 2 to1 gun fight shows he may have been more dangerous than anyone living could account for with the exception of a select few.
And it’s not like he walked away unscathed. The officers he killed wounded him enough that Shanna was able to face off with him and win.