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This is the interesting question posed by UK Commentator. The papers have all reported that a crazy crowd attacked and injured two “brave” police officers in Croydon recently.
I notice that the police, like soldiers, are always brave in our newspapers’ view of the world. Somehow this only applies to those wearing the uniform of this country and that of some of our allies. Strange that.
Anyway, are we certain that the media got this story right? Could our “brave” police officers be capable of the kind of brutality that provoked community riots in previous decades? Shurely not!
Regarding the photo above: I spent the day in Croydon at a friend’s house-warming party. On a shelf in the kitchen he has an array of religious symbols to appease him.
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Bravery entails overcoming fear, and does not entail fearlessness which could be foolhardiness.
So, unless you are suggesting they are foolhardy, the officers are probably brave because they have chosen a line of work which involves taking risks in order to protect and serve the community.
I was just commenting that the word brave is often used lazily by journos, regardless of whether it is merited in a particular case or not.
I would not like to judge these particular police officers who no doubt regularly face all kinds of stress and dangers.
Are they ‘brave’?
On a sunny afternoon in a busy shopping precinct - probably not you would think - but - add ‘HYPED’ teenagers in a group of 30 or more (and older people!) would any normal person try to impose a ‘do not litter’ instruction without a knife vest these days?
I reckon they are brave considering the group (not gang) culture that is beginning to show it’s face, those groups may now begin testing their power to see what ‘authority’ (no - no reference to Kitson there
) can do to resist them and future incidents may arise if not checked.
Would you or I walk into a situation like the one described and be able fight our way out? And if you did what would you have to say to excuse your actions?
Had it been army personnel instead of police would the incident have been the same.. I think not and that is a worrying for us all.