The Sentiment That Will Get Innocents Killed

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You might recall a video that began making the rounds months ago. Actually, it was several videos that revolved around one incident told out of order. 

The first video was of a police officer in the U.K. savagely stomping on an immigrant's head at an airport as the immigrant was already tased.

It wasn't until a bit later that the rest of the footage emerged. Two immigrant men attacked police after one was being arrested for assault. One man had broken the nose of the female officer during the scuffle. The male officer's response was brutal, but he was surrounded, panicked, and in fight mode. The female police officer had blood running down her face and was sobbing hysterically. 

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, the one being arrested, was convicted of assaulting someone with a headbutt in Starbucks and assaulting and breaking the nose of a police officer, but was only given three-and-a-half years in prison. 

The older brother, Muhammad Amaad, was also charged but was not convicted after two juries failed to reach verdicts and prosecutors decided not to try a third time. 

It was a moment that hardened the hearts of many against the Islamic immigrants who have no respect for Western culture or its laws, but for many, it was something that only showed them that we all needed to have more sympathy for these immigrants. 

This includes the female police officer whose nose was broken. 

Her name is Lydia Ward, and she could be the poster child for the sentiment that's getting the U.K. conquered by Islamic migrants. 

Ward seems to believe her job as a police officer isn't to uphold the law, but to help people on the worst days of their lives, and that requires having empathy for people like her attackers. 

In fact, she finger-wags at people who commented on her lack of usefulness and unprofessional behavior during the attack. While it's natural to have your emotions high and your fight-or-flight instincts running hard during these moments, the emotion a police officer should lean toward during those moments is "fight" 99 percent of the time. However, Ward seems to believe that the only real bad guys in this situation were the online commenters who didn't understand what was going on and weren't there. 

She defends herself by saying, "Nothing prepares you for being punched in the face," which isn't true. Police training does exactly that, and while everyone has a plan until the first punch lands, sometimes getting punched is part of the job, and you have to be able to handle that. Ward doesn't seem to think that's the case at all. Ward believes that her job isn't being the thin blue line between civilization and chaos; it's to be empathetic. 

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All of that is infuriating, to be sure, but the worst part happens at the end of the interview, where Ward expressed her desire to know why the man hit her, and that she wished he'd show some remorse and give her an apology. 

Let me answer those questions for her. 

The Islamic migrant who punched her doesn't care that he hurt her because he considers her his enemy. Given the opportunity, he would have done far worse to her, and I know that because Islamic laws dictate that he should. He's not going to apologize because he believes he did a good thing, because she's an infidel and a woman, and is worthy of only subjugation, not respect or even humanization. 

My father was a police officer. My brother is one now. I grew up and am still surrounded by police officers. There are moments they face that are beyond dangerous. Sometimes they have to get violent. Sometimes they have to get deadly. They do it, not because they want to, but because they have to. Because there are people out there who don't care about the well-being, rights, and safety of others. They're just bad people who want to do bad things. 

Yeah, many of them probably had bad backgrounds and were forced into situations that brought them to this unfortunate place... but you still can't empathize with them. Your empathy will only be taken advantage of. Rehabilitation, if possible, is something that takes time. There is very rarely ever a swift turnaround from someone going from evil to good. This isn't the movies. 

Yes, police can and should be friendly. They should seek to understand before they act when possible, and sure enough, a lot of at-the-scene police work — in fact, I'd say most of it — is talking to people to get the full story. 

But when the time comes to decisively act, a law enforcement agent's job is to complete the necessary task with cold efficiency, because failing to do so could result in innocents or your fellow officers being hurt or killed. 

The sad fact is that society has enemies, and they have to be dealt with, or it will fall. People like Ward have no business being in the line of duty if they can't grasp what that duty is. The legacy media outlets in the UK seem to think Ward is the ideal officer, but in reality, it was her male partner who was willing to violently stomp on their attacker's head to make it clear that there will be no more fighting, and intense pain will follow any attempt to continue.