[UPDATE 5:12 p.m.] Barricaded Suspect at Motel in Fortuna, Police Asking Residents Nearby to Shelter in Place

While I don’t disagree with your overall sentiment, Kathy, I think the thing you need to understand is: the naysayers are bitch-ass-bitches, who have never put anything on the line in their lives. They jockey behind a keyboard and clamor with indignation at the latest scuttlebutt on social media, yet they are too scared to take action themselves, so they rely on the same police services that they slander to protect them when the bad man is beating down their door. “Defund the police, but call 9-1-1!” None of those people have the stomach or balls to be cops, and none of those people would be good at doing the job. They think that things should be a certain way, and when they come to the sudden realization that that things aren’t that way, they have no plan B to put in place. Those people, thrust into a uniform, would do one of two things: run away like scared little girls, or make horrible decisions and rapidly escalate a situation into way more than it would have been had someone with some stones, common sense, and street smarts been there to just yell appropriately at the dirtbag thus getting him to modify his behavior and ‘scudder’ off elsewhere. There’s some interesting media blurbs of these sort of people – liberal politicians, community organizers, NAACP leaders and the like – taking police training and using the use-of-force simulator, and invariably every single one of these people freaks out in their scenario and starts spraying bullets at a drunken hobo who is just eating a candy bar. I for one will let these losers keep running their mouths; secure in the knowledge that they are pathetic and will no doubt soon be evicted from their mom’s basement because they are stinking up the house [edit].