This is crazy. When have police ever saved anyone from harm? I know there are those few who genuinely care about their communities and are good people (confused as shit about right and wrong probably but good people nonetheless) but these assholes stick together like vultures and betray the heir fear again and again with actions like this.
A gang of cowards with guns surrounded by children is a dangerous situation. It sounds like maybe they had good reason to be afraid, teenagers with bad experiences with police and one in particular who was hiding from them under some suspicion.
Cops have a dangerous job (no doubt made more so by their own frivolous actions) and should be afraid. But maybe their broken methods don't work in all situations and should be adjusted.
Maybe there are better ways to do everything (except the pizza at Cafe Zorba in Medellin Colombia, that shit is perfect) what the fuck do I know?
I just see a broken system with lunatics at the wheel and the freedom I love being trampled upon at nearly every turn.