Video: Would you have intervened? - Off-duty Brazil cop reportedly stops robbery while holding child

[Aim1]

Would you have intervened in this situation if this was you with your kid?



http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/1...ps-attempted-robbery-while-holding-child.html

Off-duty Brazil cop reportedly stops attempted robbery while holding child

An off-duty Brazilian police officer reportedly managed to thwart an armed robbery by killing two men with his pistol – all while holding his child.

Not to second guess but I can say that if I had my kid, I wouldn't have. Afterwards, if I had heard that innocent people were shot and killed I would have been sad, but I just wouldn't intervene in this situation if I was holding my kid like he was.

 

[grampajack]

Depends on if the dirtbags were standing between me and the exit, and a number of other conditions. If fleeing were not an option, my second thought would be finding somewhere to stash the kid, like in a corner or behind a counter, then getting in between him and said dirtbags. What I would not do is take anyone else into account, so no playing the hero or coming to anyone's rescue. Sorry, but if I've got a kid that I'm responsible for, then that comes first.

 

[caribou]

How could you not react...?? it's why you carry conceled.
I might have set the kid down, but I wasnt there.....maybe the guy just reacted as trained , with instinct, both defensivly as a trained MP and as a Father.....and did what he thought best at the moment.....and it worked out..... Bless him.

 

[MedWheeler]

It's not the first time I've seen such a video involving an off-duty Brazilian cop shooting someone while holding a child. It's quite possible that expectations of them might be different than of ours, or simply a difference in "cop culture" there. The officer indicated he was afraid of what would happen once he identified himself as an officer, so he may have been obligated by the requirements of his job to do so. I find it difficult to believe that such a requirement, if indeed in place, would apply in all situations, but I'm not there and can't say one way or the other. When I was on the job, we did indeed have a "duty to respond", even when off-duty, and each of us was required to have our badge, ID, and firearm at all times while within the city. However, it was written into the policy that unreasonable risk was not required.

As pointed out, there are some factors that would have to be known before I could make such a decision on this particular case. In other words, I would actually have to have been there. Robbers in Brazil seem to be more brazen than many of them here, and there is no guarantee that they'll leave without exacting violence as they do so. Yes, that happens here, too, but it seems less common than there.

 

[Sav .250]

You better believe that `s a real time decision . I can`t be a Monday morning quarter back on this one.

 

[Jack B.]

Nope , but I'm not a Brazilian cop. Don't know how they are trained or what their legal responsibility's are.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

I made the decision many years ago in a different setting that I wouldn't second guess someone's shoot. Not doing so here either.

 

[chicharrones]

I'm not a cop, let alone a Brazilian cop, so no.

If I did and the video got out, momma would beat me dead anyway.