You're criticising them for not knowing what was going to happen next. I don't think anyone could have even guessed that what happened, would.
SHE RAN UNDER TRAFFIC THREE TIMES. THREE!!! And nobody could have known what would happen next?
I'm shocked that you still think nobody could have foreseen at least the third one. They STILL left a female officer on her own with the woman. How many times before someone thinks, 'hang on, something's very wrong here, I'm going to make sure this person is immobile so we can treat her and remove her from the scene'?
Can you imagine how it would have looked if they'd immediately detained the two females upon arrival at the scene? Police officers handcuffing and detaining two young women who have just been hit by cars. There'd be outrage, regardless of the fact that it may have (unknowingly) prevented any further incidents. Same thing applies to using batons or incapacitant spray on them after just being hit by vehicles for a second time.
Yes, and I'm equally critical of the over-PC society that has let it come to this, rather than let the police do their jobs of securing the nutters and reducing the danger to the public.
Oh he's even more wrong than that. He doesn't realise it but in effect he's saying ALL casualties should be treated as people who could assault police officers.
No, I'm saying that casualties that have run under traffic twice already and spat at and abused medics should be treated as people that can potentially assault a police officer.
You are talking about an incident that is so incredibly rare that its made it on two TV programmes, one of which was made specifically about this incident.
You are talking like the people involved should have known what to do, almost as if they should have trained for it. They went from assisting casualties to fighting one of them in the space of a few minutes.
I don't think the initial incident could have been handled differently.
I do think you are about as wrong as I've seen anyone be.
Police arrived on the scene having already been made aware that these women have tried to kill themselves once. They stand at the side of the motorway calmly interviewing them, not for one moment thinking 'What if they try again?'. And to you this is perfectly reasonable?